I think this site deserve a better format of chess game than this variants called atomic, orde, etc.
Shako is a great format. If someone with a good heart could do this, i think that this could be the most played variant before standart.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9peUnk_o8Qwww.chessvariants.com/large.dir/shako.htmlWe need to do a campaign on this site for developers to embrace this idea. I'm sure it's a very interesting variant, and it can bring more people to the site.
SHAKO
Inspired by several old chess variants, Jean-Louis Cazaux from Toulouse (France) invented this variant. The name Shako means Chess in Esperanto, `another kind of non-conformism and utopia', in the words of the inventor. The idea of this variant is to make a new game without directly disposing the large heritage of the classical game. All rules of orthodox chess are kept, and the way the pieces are placed in the opening setup allow players to follow practical all the openings used for orthodox chess. The new pieces are taken from Xiangqi (Chinese Chess), with the intention to bring back together the two branches of the game that went of from India either east to the Orient, and west to the Arabs.
MOVEMENT OF THE PIECES AND OTHER RULES
Elephants move one or two squares diagonally. When an elephant moves two squares, it is allowed to jump, i.e., the intervening square does not have to be empty.
Cannons move without taking like rooks, and they move with taking by going in a straight horizontal and vertical line and jumping over exactly one piece: when a cannon takes a piece, there must be exactly one piece between the original and final square of the cannons move - this piece may be of either color. (This is identical to the move of the cannon in Xiangqi.)
All other pieces move like in orthodox chess; also castling is as in usual chess. Pawns promote on the tenth row of the board to Queen, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Elephant, or Cannon, to the owning players choice.
Sounds like a fun April 1st idea.
Hey thanks for the link post <3
@Toadofsky Why? It's a good idea for me!!
@MangoTownTravis I watched some of your videos, they're cool. Unfortunately I can not get into that site that had the variant to play. And the administrators treat the opinions here with disdain. That is, this will probably never be implemented here.
The administrators here think that the atomic variant is cool, but not Shako. LUL. Shako is a much more sensible and interesting variant. And it still has a historical backing.
