I played tournament Shogi for a while (1 Dan), and found the lack of a chequer pattern to be unimportant. I'm sure that if the pattern were taken away, on the chess-board, most players would adapt quickly.
Without The Chequer Pattern ?
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May 25, 2013
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kco wrote:
Why would you need the pattern for the endgames ?
Well, it just makes things a little easier. The pattern is a counting tool, like the alternately coloured bars in Backgammon.
May 25, 2013
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#6
the alternate colour for the backgammon it make it easier for the counting, no ?
I propose a whole different approach to board design:
May 25, 2013
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#8
kco wrote:
the alternate colour for the backgammon it make it easier for the counting, no ?
Yes.
May 25, 2013
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#9
Interesting theory about the triangle thing, so what you are saying that the alternate colour help you to visualise the triangle shape easier ? to me is just a matter of counting the squares.
May 25, 2013
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#10
Picture how much easier it is to play an opposite couloured Bishop ending, with the pattern. One may tell at a glance (board wide), which pawns are vulnerable to the other's Bishop.
May 25, 2013
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#12
kco wrote:
Yes it seem the colour is important for the Bishop, just as I thought so.
Not just the Bishop, it also makes Knight-move sequences, easier to calculate.
May 25, 2013
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#13
Ok fair enough.The reason why I asked this in the first place it was when I was going through a game on another website but the board had a glitch at the time and it was only showing the pieces. It looked ok to me.It got me thinking would it make us/me understand the game a bit better rather worry about the colour ?
Some pgn viewers allow you to change the square colors, and also make customized piece symbols. This is chesspad, v 1.0.10.
May 25, 2013
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@ThomasBrown
That image looks more like one of the early video games, than a chess board. Not for me.
May 25, 2013
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#16
Yes I can do that with Scid but with that pieces ehhh I am not so sure about that. 
Get rid of dark squares... Voila, no more dark square weakness! 
May 25, 2013
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#18
Doggy_Style wrote:
@ThomasBrown
That image looks more like one of the early video games, than a chess board. Not for me.
something like from the 'Atari' ?
May 25, 2013
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kco wrote:
Doggy_Style wrote:
@ThomasBrown
That image looks more like one of the early video games, than a chess board. Not for me.
something like from the 'Atari' ?
Yeah, or one of the early "stand-up" arcade machines.
Is it possible to play chess without the chequer pattern ? Or will it be too hard to do it because you are so used to it to the chequer ?