I suspect Josef Hartwig would like a word
I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
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Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#12That is very clever! But I hate the way the pawns face. Makes sense! But it still reads, to me, like one of those "color, but the text is in a different color" things. Feels like the pawns should be facing the opposite direction. =/
It's attack direction not movement direction. Pawns are the one piece where there is a difference and I'm not sure which is better ;-)
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#13I suspect Josef Hartwig would like a word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Hartwig#Chess_sets https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus-Schachspiel
And it looks so much more reasonable, I would say
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#14What I enjoy about this design is it exploits the correlation between piece value with the number of ways it can move, resulting in a visual intuition that more visually complex pieces are worth more on average. The knight is perhaps the frustrating exceptions to this.
Piece value is determined by how many squares it can threaten.
This is why rooks are worth 5 and bishops are worth 3, despite both having apparently equal freedom of movement (just rotated 45 degrees). The bishop will be able to access strictly fewer squares than the rook even in the best case, and usually much fewer. And the bishop is stuck on one color.
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#15cf. Bernard Parham's "Matrix Notation", which uses the same shapes for pawns, bishops, rooks, and (almost) queens: https://www.thechessdrum.net/talkingdrum/TheMatrix/index.htm...
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#16Interesting, it seems like we can "dissect" each piece into independent properties like possible directions and possible distances. Then one could generate chess set spaces randomly and have a lot of fun.
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#17I suspect Josef Hartwig would like a word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Hartwig#Chess_sets https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus-Schachspiel
And it looks so much more reasonable, I would say
Except that this set describes the attack directions, not the motion directions. The difference is in the shape of the pawns. I think this one is quite interesting, as showing lines of threat.
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#18I suspect Josef Hartwig would like a word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Hartwig#Chess_sets https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus-Schachspiel
Those peaces remain unreasonably expensive on Amazon, btw.
Re: I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
#19If made into a physical set, I could see the bishops and rooks getting confused