[spoon-discuss] Nomic Chess

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been thinking about this Chess subgame thing, and I had an idea 
for how to make it into a more multiplayer game:

There's a chess variant whose name I can't remember where two separate 
games happen at once; the white player in the first game is partners 
with the black one in the other, and vice versa. Whenever you capture a 
piece, it will be the same color as your partner's pieces. So when you 
take a piece, you give it to your partner (and you get the pieces he 
captures). A turn consists either of making a legal chess move, or of 
placing any piece you've been given by your partner on the board under 
your control, anywhere in the first two rows of the board.


I was thinking we could set up something sort of like that, with 
societies as the teams. Each society would have a pool of pieces; a 
society could 'sponsor' one of its members in a game against someone 
from another society with the pieces captured by the society's champion 
becoming property of the society.

Each piece could be identified by four characters, the first two 
defining the player, the second two defining the piece (so a Bishop of 
mine might be WoBi, a knight of Glotmorf's could be GmKn, and an 
Elephant of the Baron could be BrEt, etc.) When pieces are taken, they 
become 'owned' by whoever captured them (and go into the possession of 
the soc. e represents); players can't take pieces they own from a 
society (so you can't use the pieces you capture; only those taken by 
other members in your society).


Perhaps also, each society could destroy pieces it controlled to gain 
'power points' (more pps for better units); these could be spent to 
cause a variety of nifty effects. I'm not sure what effects... the 
creation of new pieces on the piecelist? Curious effects within 
sponsored games ("My queen has an uzi in her purse...")?

Anyway, I figured I'd get some input wrt whether or not people would be 
interested in such a game before I spent a lot of time writing it up - 
the game's completely pointless if I'm the only one who wants to play, 
and mostly pointless if there are fewer than four willing players... 
Anyone have any comments?

--
Wonko

P.S. I'm leaving town for a day, so I won't respond until tomorrow 
night at the earliest.

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