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You may be right. But “centaur chess” is what it is called, and now people can learn more about it if they want with a quick Google search. I could make the description more complete, but my feeling is that it is pretty long already and people don’t want to read a treatise just to decide if they wan...

Just added the parenthetical “(part human, part machine)” to try to be less confusing about my hooves!

You make a good point about the link to the FIDE rules. But my sense is that they link to those rules mostly just to have an official place to point for how the pieces move, because the actual implementation on BGA is not consistent with those rules (e.g., draw offers on opposing players time, rules...

Nice to meet you! I have tried Hive and I like it a lot. Indeed, I am planning to start playing Hive here on BGA very soon. I already have your book (which is excellent!) and also the new one by Schultz, which I have not,had a chance to read yet. Thank you for all your contributions to the Hive comm...

I mainly came to BGA to learn new games, but I am a chess master (FIDE elo about 2300) so I thought I would also check out the chess action. In looking over the games of the top Elo players here, it is very obvious that there is extensive use of engines. As far as I can tell from reading the rules, ...