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M Winther wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2009 02:33 PM EST:Poor ★
No, Big Board Chess is exceedingly tedious. Only the piece dropping phase is immensely tiresome. This is way over the top. One can make big board variants, but one must make them much less demanding. There are ways to achieve this.
/Mats

Jose Carrillo wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2009 05:07 PM EST:
I agree the setup phase may be tedius. It does looks like an interesting game to play OTB.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2009 05:51 PM EST:

I haven't played it yet, but it does seem less tedious than Go, and the setup phase adds an area of strategy not normally found in Chess variants. I do think it wasn't designed with correspondence play in mind though, and the setup phase could be sped up for correspondence play by allowing multiple drops per turn. I might recommend starting with five pieces per turn and decreasing this amount as tactical responses to the opponent's deployment of forces becomes more important. Perhaps five apiece for the first three turns, then four, three, two, one.


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