Interesting Game. BUT, for a game that drove ME crazy check out this Chess Variant (Recognized by The London Chess Centre) PROTEST CHESS.
 
Be sure to watch the game that put ME in the Toilet (Guenter's Black Vulture Attack) September 1999. I have just recovered and playing Regular Chess from my room in the Local Mental Hospital.
 
If you are interested in playing an Protest Chess Game, send ME an email and I will give it a try once again. My Doctor said he would monitor my mental health during the game - so that I don't develop some of the effects (see icon for effects) that have happened in the past. The Mirror problem was especially bad.
 
The web address is :
http://www.edburrell.com/Chess/protest_chess

I really like these ideas. I also like how they try not to disturb the 'order' of regular chess as he said. I wonder if would be too powerful to be able to move, and protect via. bringing a new piece (hawk or elephant) onto the board in one move.....I also wonder of the new role of the pawns! opening lanes becomes Everything with these powerful pieces.
 
anyhow. very creative.

..No doubt because the YouTube video Re. 'Seirawan chess'
I downloaded is about a month old; plus, the two main
chessplayers involved {Yasser, & B. Harper} have other
primary 'Real World' responsibilities; the details Re.
this new variant {including where one can buy the "hawk"
and the "elephant" pieces} are sketchy.. at best; but
here's some admittedly sparse info. I came across {see,
below} while 'googling' 'Seirawan' in a 'blog search.'
 
{Yes, there IS a separate "Google" 'blog-search,' search-engine!}.
 
If you're interested in getting the pieces or promoting the game in your community, please send an email to: bruce at- seirawanchess.com {he's a personal friend of Yasser's who co-developed the game with him}.
 
Regards, Len Molden
Seirawan Chess Promoter
 
{comment: Admittedly, 'semi-pathetic' in getting new games/chess-
variants, 'off-and-running' go, {as in the absence of any mention
of specific game directions!?} but I imagine the same feelings
also held true on another level, regarding the initial organizing
of Geo. Washington's 'colonial army'!}. 0:

okay, now i'm thinking these pieces really are too powerful. They should have powers of King and Knight ('elephant') and King and Bishop ('hawk'), respectfully, not Rook and Knight and Knight and Bishop. The 'Hawk' should be called the 'Archer' to be consistent with kings, queens, knights, and all that jazz, and it's a cool piece, he can shift one square and fire on black or white diagonals. The other piece is a stomping piece and can shift in the centre to cover eight white or black central squares in one move. I'm thinking....Paladin.
 
So, Archer with King and Bishop, Paladin with King and Knight powers. They come onto the board into play as Seirawan suggested, and there's no threat of those crazy supported mates out of the opening.
 
what do you think?!

..Your separate ideas {'DS'}, also 'strike' me as superior
in concept, including re-naming the pieces; as mates and
powerful attacks coming from seemingly 'Nowhere' is more
fitting for games that bear more on chance!
..At least you now know how to get in touch with the inventors! { :
 
Ps. The idea to keep various strategy games 2-to-3 'steps' ahead
of being solved by computers through the introduction of new pieces
{or even board squares} is laudable; provided that losing a game
doesn't spur too much of the feeling on the part of a loser of..
'Where the Hell did that 'shot' come from?!'

soon i will be dead, and you with me. :P enjoy the ideas

..Since you were the first to go 'off-subject', I don't feel Too
guilty in stating {'imho' of course, plus many others} that the
term "dead" is in some respects a misnomer!
 
..I would even suggest that your 'beloved science' is on the
side of those that maintain that 'Life goes on' {if you will},
after death; in the universally agreed scientific principle..
{so far as I know} that neither matter Nor energy can be
created {at least by us 'mortals'} Or destroyed!
 
For the record, in several senses we're already experiencing
'Eternity'! ..Some theologian once commented to an avowed
atheist: "This {earthly} life is the only 'hell' I'll ever know;
and barring a 'change-of-heart' on your part, the only 'heaven'
that you'll ever know."
 
{Bear in mind the I'm merely 'a messenger' {one of multitudes,
in fact} as in, don't hate/'kill' the messenger}. { :