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IdahoEv
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Re: The camel piece
« Reply #15 on: Apr 13th, 2006, 10:10pm » |
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on Apr 13th, 2006, 2:06pm, NIC1138 wrote:the killer instinct is stronger in cats against birds and hawks against rabbits, than in dogs against cats and cats against rabbits!!..  |
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Given that my pet dog corners cats but then tries to copulate with them, I tend to concur with your statement about the killer instincts of dogs.
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BlackKnight
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Re: The camel piece
« Reply #16 on: Apr 13th, 2006, 11:42pm » |
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on Apr 12th, 2006, 5:08pm, 99of9 wrote:| You want to play a game where the objective is to get some grass to the other side of the field? |
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"The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill (or fence)!"
I think that clearly states the objective of the game! 
Does the hawk mean Arimaa needs to go into a third dimension? Can the hawk fly over the trap and/or other pieces?
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BlackKnight
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Re: The camel piece
« Reply #17 on: Apr 14th, 2006, 1:33am » |
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Sorry, I forgot to mention kangaroo and Trojan horse in my last posting! 
And this reminds me of the following (or maybe the other way round): I have a chess set where you can stack any pieces on top of each other, and this kind of chess also has its own rules: You can stack arbitrarily, but if your opponent captures this stack, then all the pieces are gone!
The stack moves like the topmost piece - only! When the stack moves, it can leave a lower part of the stack on the starting square. Promoting a pawn can be speeded up quite a bit, especially on a half-open file with a rook behind: 1. The rook hops on top of the pawn. 2. The "rook"-stack moves to the opposite rank. 3. The rook moves away leaving the pawn behind to be promoted.
I don't know whether this game was really successful but it was quite fun to play, and of course you can use this chess set also for normal play.
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NIC1138
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Re: The camel piece
« Reply #18 on: Apr 23rd, 2006, 10:54pm » |
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I know a similar game, created by a famous chess dude called something-something Lasker. But The version I know is more like checkers...
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