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@MCasalaspro said in #19: > Makes sense! But I guess my brain will refuse to work on that way! : ) You get used to it quickly. Many strategy games are played on intersections: Xiangqi, Go, etc.

@MCasalaspro said in #17: > That chess with 9x9 its quite interesting, but I've never seen an 9x9 board to give it a try Fun fact: you can make an 8x8 board a 9x9 by playing on the intersections inste…

People have been designing soccer themed variants for a long time: https://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc/291300.pdf#page=9 https://www.chessvariants.org/ A nicely themed board for your games: https://www.…

@Brian-E said in #8: > You may be right. I say it, though, because it's an alteration of the way games are played (at their start) which seems to me quite a fundamental change. It would also possibly …

@Brian-E said in #6: > The only problem: I think it would be a lot of work for the developers. What makes you say that? Compared to some of the extremely complex backend work they do, this seems like …

@Zanno960 said in #3: > Edit: Hmm, seems like pychess doesn't have Gothic, only Capablanca, but that's ok, I'll have fun anyway. I'm also concerned about there being a way smaller playerbase to play r…

@mkubecek said in #2: > IMHO it would be better if, after the initial timeout, the clock would just start. Yes, and I think that's how it works in swiss tournaments. But that would basically be eradic…

RE: 960, I just wrote a post about fixing the first-move move issue: https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/a-better-solution-for-abortion The way the abort timer works has never been suited to 96…

I realize there has to be some mechanism for auto-aborting games. I also realize for experienced players in orthodox chess, the current system is perfectly fine (some impatient people even wish it was…