Arimaa: A Chess Variant?
A few days ago I found out about Arimaa (by accidentally clicking on a link to the Board Games shelf on Wikibooks ), a board game designed to give humans an advantage over computers' sheer calculating power. After reading the rules, I doubt that it is really a chess variant, because the game mechanics are so completely different. Here are the (fairly simple) rules: The game is played on a 8x8 board with the same number of pieces of each kind and number of piece types as in chess Chess Piece Arimaa Equivalent Pawn Rabbit King Elephant Queen Camel Rook Horse Bishop Dog Knight Cat All the pieces move orthogonally one square (except for the pawn, which cannot move backwards), and higher ranking pieces freeze lower ranking pieces unless the lower ranking pieces have a friendly piece orthogonally adjacent. Higher ranking...
