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Haynie's Primary Chess. On 6 by 6 board without knights. (6x6, Cells: 36) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Charles Gilman wrote on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 02:56 AM EDT:Good ★★★★

As Pawns have no initial double move, it could be said that just as the files removed are specifcally FIDE files b and g, the ranks removed are specifically FIDE ranks 3 and 6. Another name for this variant could be ARIANA (All-Radial dIANA).

Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 03:38 AM EDT:

It was only a suggestion, which the inventor can ignore or even denounce for himself. Speaking for my own variants I'd welcome a few alternative names for Great Herd, Humpmitregi, and Tryzantine Chess. Does Michael Howe really mean that were he to invent the greatest variant ever he would not post it until he had thought of a decent name for it, even if that took another two years? Let's hear Billy Haynie's own verdict.

Anonymous wrote on Sun, Apr 2, 2006 01:49 PM EDT:

Why not play with knights instead of bishops?

J Andrew Lipscomb wrote on Sun, Apr 2, 2006 10:46 PM EDT:

You could easily play with knights instead of bishops--that would be Los Alamos Chess plus castling.

Rodrigo Zanotelli wrote on Sat, Jun 20, 2015 04:08 PM EDT:

There is low alamos chess that is this variant with knight instead of bishop and without castling.

But anyway, removing knights from the game make the queen have all the game moves.

"But you could just add knight moves to queen making her a amazon"

But then the king will not be a simplified version of amazon.

"Ok, but if that is the problem you just add knight moves to king too"

Then the knight move the king to will not be a simmplfied version of the kngiht move queen do.

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