Why Royal Chess?
Regular Chess is a great game. It stimulates the mind, challenges the soul, and strengthens ones patience and resolve. It encourages the development of deep thought patterns, and instantly demonstrates the benefits of thinking things out clearly before acting. And it's much more fun than using mathematics, or the "trial and Pain" method which is so terribly overworked in our present society.
But it is time to upgrade the game of Chess, not because it's not a great game, but because it has failed to grow and change. The game has been analyzed to death by man and machine. Most championship games end in draws, and the games move much too slowly for the later generations of faster paced people.
Who can really be enthused about a game that requires years of memorizing and studying previously played games just to have a fair shot at spending hours to play a game that ends in a draw.
The past changes in the game were done to liven it up a bit, but four hundred years of Queen dominated Chess has taken its toll.
By playing the game as it was before the Queen became dominant, you can easily see what the game needs. There used to be seven power players on a side. Now there is one giant, six pieces of much lesser strength, and one old man hiding in the corner. Chess needs more balance.
The original game was played without the necessity of swapping as many pieces due to the limited mobility of the pieces. It created games of taunt struggles with multiple clashes and conflicts between pieces that could give a good account of themselves against the other pieces on the board.
Since Knights, Bishops, and Rooks cannot protect each other, the present game makes them spend too much of their energy dealing with the Queen.
But going backwards to the original game is an intolerable answer. So is forever staying the same.
Human nature demands that we always go forward, that we expand, build, create, challenge, and improve. And above all, conquer.
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