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Isle of Lewis Chess Men. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I think that the piece labeled a bishop is actually a bishop, because it wears a miter, as a bishop does, and carries a pastoral staff, as a bishop does.
They also offer at http://www.chessbaron.co.uk/chess-TH2002.htm a chess set based on Isle of Lewis pieces with a tower as rook and with the berserkers reduced to about half size to serve as pawns.
Rules of Chess FAQ. Frequently asked chess questions.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Sure you can, Michael; there are games on record with five queens on the board at once.
Shatranj Kamil I. Large shatranj variant with new piece: camel. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]My essay explaining my view of the relationships among various early forms of chess, with this one in a crucial position, is now on line at http://www.goddesschess.com/chessays/johnayer.html
Rules of Chess FAQ. Frequently asked chess questions.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]There is no rule that a king must be checked before it is checkmated. In fact, 'no check without mate' is one special condition that is sometimes used to handicap a stronger player in friendly games.
Cataclysm. Large board game with short-range pieces designed to be dramatic without being overly complicated or dragging on too long. (12x16, Cells: 192) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Eric, where can I find out more about Courier Chess, Mods 4 & 5?
Chess Eccentricities. An old book on Chess variants from 1885.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]A year or so ago a British chess club wanted to sell a copy of this book to raise money, and Fred Wilson of Fred Wilson--Books in New York City said that he had sold several copies over the years, and he didn't believe that only fourteen copies were printed.
CHESS Eccentricities, By Major George Hope Verney. Images from the book (complete).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This is an excellent gift to us all! Thank you!
Cataclysm. Large board game with short-range pieces designed to be dramatic without being overly complicated or dragging on too long. (12x16, Cells: 192) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]As for hating plastic pieces (I play with plastic, wood, ceramic, metal), I ask seriously: has anyone ever seen wooden checkers for sale? preferably matching chess pieces?
I think that 'proprietary design' means simply that the proprietors have the sole right to make and sell these. Once we've bought them, we can tie them to our hats, arrange them in triangles and bowl at them with marbles, or do whatever else we like with them.
Courier Chess. A large historic variant from Medieval Europe. (12x8, Cells: 96) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Splendid thought about the two-square pawn move. I wish it were mine!
Cambaluc Chinese Chess Photos. A commercially produced Chinese Chess set with Staunton pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Mr. Steinbrink has supplied a useful link, but the rook is styled as a cannon. A canon is (to simplify a bit) a priest serving in a cathedral.
Chess 112. Large variant on an 8x12 board. (14x8, Cells: 112) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]'Rules are the same as those used in standard chess' becomes indeterminate when applied to castling. I can imagine castling and recastling, as laid out by Mr. Gast in his two enlargements.
Game Courier. PHP script for playing Chess variants online.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]When viewing a Game Courier preset, the 'List all Comments' button doesn't work.
Adjutant Chess (8x8). Introducing the Adjutant that can slide like a queen, but on the same square colour only (with zrf).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The adjutant seem quite similar to Mr. H. R. Lambert's Emperor in Emperor Chess. I degraded the piece to Grand Duke, and then imagined an Archduke, which, I think, would be the same as this adjutant: a bishop plus a dabbabah-runner?
All the King's Men. Page describing variant chess pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Now found at http://www.mayhematics.com/v/v_gm.htm
Courier-Spiel. 19th century variant of Courier Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Two Large Shatranj Variants. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I am also an annoying pedant (though I didn't write that remark). I should not have said that the Atlanteans would not know what an elephant is; they probably would have known. I am playing Great Shatranj D at the moment, and enjoying it. I consider it Good, subject to possible upgrade later.
Modern Shatranj. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It occurred to me that in shrinking Shatranj al-Kamil v.1 back onto an 8x8 board it would have been cleverer to combine the dabbabahs and alfils into alibabas, and possibly upgrade the ferz to move one square in any direction.
Bird's Chess. Chess variant on 10 by 8 board from 19th century England. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Why is it that this game, Bird's Chess, has a page by that title, with 'bird' in the URL, but the comments file calls it 'The Emperor's Game'? In all other games that I have checked, the game and its comments go by the same name.
Years ago I read that Bird called his R+N the Prince, and put it beside the king, and his B+N the Princess, and put it beside the queen. He may have experimented somewhat.
Painting of Courier Game. A painting of a Courier Chess game by the famous Dutch painter Lucas van Leyden, from 1510.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The man seems to me to be dismayed, and the woman confident. The game has been analyzed. The woman is checking, and can force checkmate in about three moves.
The Adjutant is a combination of a bishop (or ferz-rider) and a dabbabah-rider. It is not lamed orthogonally. The combination of bishop and lame dabbabah-rider was introduced more than fifty years ago as the Emperor, but to avoid confusion with Emperor King Chess I reduced it in rank to a Grand Duke.
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