I'd been eager to play a game of Sovereign Chess since I learned about it a few month ago. Now at last I've played a game with the creator himself.
Bottom line, I thought it was really fun. It's got all the drama and tactical challenges that chess does, and then it adds a bunch of new twists and turns. As the size of the board makes obvious, there are a lot of move possibilities, and both the layout and the squares of color make many of these novel to a regular ol' chess player.
Sovereign Chess is exciting, too. The white and black pieces start so far from each other that, after a first glance, one might expect a lot of slow, positional development. But no. The center of the board open to both players, and that means that the race for control of additional armies is on from the start. My first game was filled with threats, attacks, and counterattacks, with scarcely a moment's respite. If anything, I'd say that Sovereign Chess is more tactical than ordinary chess is--though I should probably reserve judgment until I've played a few more games.
I am looking forward to playing more in the future. I haven't yet experienced a regime change, and I would love to see how that effects the strategy of the game.
I'd been eager to play a game of Sovereign Chess since I learned about it a few month ago. Now at last I've played a game with the creator himself.
Bottom line, I thought it was really fun. It's got all the drama and tactical challenges that chess does, and then it adds a bunch of new twists and turns. As the size of the board makes obvious, there are a lot of move possibilities, and both the layout and the squares of color make many of these novel to a regular ol' chess player.
Sovereign Chess is exciting, too. The white and black pieces start so far from each other that, after a first glance, one might expect a lot of slow, positional development. But no. The center of the board open to both players, and that means that the race for control of additional armies is on from the start. My first game was filled with threats, attacks, and counterattacks, with scarcely a moment's respite. If anything, I'd say that Sovereign Chess is more tactical than ordinary chess is--though I should probably reserve judgment until I've played a few more games.
I am looking forward to playing more in the future. I haven't yet experienced a regime change, and I would love to see how that effects the strategy of the game.