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Icon Clearinghouse 1. A collection of chess icons for all to use in Interactive Diagrams and Game Courier setups.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]There is an alternative German plural to Mann, it is Mann/Mannen with an archaic flavour and a restriction in meaning, it is a soldier or a servant of the king only, but not any male human being.
Colorful Osmosis Chess. All basic pieces are colorbound or colorwithching. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The Evangelist has also the can-mate property because it covers all range-1 squares like a Mann does, and King+Mann can mate a lone King.
X-Chess by Jeremy Gabriel Good featured the Harvestman among other pieces of Seenschach, but this is the only other game I am aware of.
Hm... what should a rotary counterpart of the Harvestman be: Ferz, followed by Girlscout (aka Crooked Rook)? This is almost the same as a Girlscout lacking the initial Wazir steps and I doubt that this piece was ever used in Chess Variant.
Yes, I think so, the Imam covers a stretch of three adjacent squares (1,2)(1,3)(1,4) and can manœuvre with a Wazir move, this should be sufficient for a checkmate. One has to be careful not to stalemate the lone King, because the Harvestman component covers so many squares.
The WNC is featured as Teutonic Knight in Teutonic Knights Chess.
Teutonic Knight's Chess. 
Played on an oblong board with rarely used pieces: The teutonic knight, the archchancellor and the crown princess. (8x10, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]@HaruN Y: Thanks for the interactive diagram here and for Zabel Chess.
Interesting variant with innovative promotion rules.
The rules are inclomplete with respect to double check and pincers on both Kings, it should be specified what happens than. Technically, the fake King is in check but not necessarily checkmated in such a situation.
The rare case of double checkmate should also have a special mention in the rules: Is this the end of the game with a win for the checkmating party, or will the game continue with the fake King demoted to a pawn and the checkmating piece being removed?
Fairy Pieces Part 2. Showcasing 158 Fairy Pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Great that this piece of work is finally out! I have waited for it for more than a decade ...
There is a small question: Why did you rename the "Teutonic Knight" to "Eutonic Knight"? Is there a specific reason for that, or is it a typo (typical cut-and-paste error)?
There is a questionmark on the date of the "Seeping Switchers" army. It was posted here as a web page on 7 January 2002, but I developed it earlier in 2001 in the old comment systems of this site, so the date should be 2001.
PS: Originally, the army was named "Sweeping Switchers" but due to a typographical error that I didn't spot in the correction cycle it became "Seeping Switchers".
Featured Chess Variants. Chess Variants Featured in our Page Headers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I nominate the game Jetan by Edgar Rice Burroghs, https://www.chessvariants.com/other.dir/jetan.html
It is tagged "groundbreaking" and I totally agree with this tagging.
I second Seirawan Chess for its innovative mechanism of "gating-in" new pieces.
Fairy Pieces Part 2. Showcasing 158 Fairy Pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]On Kaiserspiel (Emperor's game), Sultanspiel (Sultan's game), Peguilhen and L. Tressan:
Kaiserspiel was clearly described in 1819 and attributed to some Peguilhen. It contains the Amazon (named Feldherr in original German, English translations include General and Commander. Probably the more clumsy "Commander in Chief" is a better translation. It also contains the Bishop-Knight piece under the name Adjutant. L. Tressan republished this game with slight amendments but did not change the pieces and their names. The addition of the Rook-Knight piece named Admiral than was pondered, but discarded because of the unusual board size needed (11x11)
Sultanspiel (Sultan's game) was first published by L. Tressan in 1840 and it contains the Rook-Knight piece in addition to the pieces known from Kaiserspiel. The piece is named Marschall (Marshal) there.
Now to the more difficult part: Virtually nothing is known about the person L. Tressan. It appears in a Chess book bibliography by Oettinger under the name "Ludwig Tressau", but I think that the given name is just an extrapolation from the initial by the bibliographer, and that the last letter is plain wrong, it should be an n, not a u (from inspecting the title page of the scanned book, I read clearly a Fraktur n at the end of the name; Google also reads L. Tressan). We do not even know if L. Tressan was male or female, their consistent hiding behind an abbreviation makes me think of a woman named Louise or Luise.
Suggestions for edits:
Correct all appearances of Ludwig Tressan to L. Tressan; try to avoid pronouns for L. Tressan (repeat the name, use the article "the" in place of "his", or use singular they)
Disentagle Emperor's Game (attributed to Peguilhen, ca. 1815) and Sultan's game (attributed to L. Tressan, 1840).
In the description of Marshall, you can add at your discretion the factoid that Peguilhen (1815) pondered about a game including this piece under the name "Admiral" but discarded that idea.
P.S. You may find the following article, also including Hyderabad Decimal Chess, interesting: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/bgs-2022-0017 (The author, Georgi Markov, goes for Ludwig Tressau what I consider an error be Oettinger)
You were looking for games with the Dabbaba-Ferz compound piece. The tag #Piece:Kirin lists currently four games here:
Grand Betza by John Davis, name: Kylin
Sai Squad by Jörg Knappen, name: Diamond
Short Sliders and Zwangskrieg by Bob Greenwade, name: Kirin
The names Kirin (a different transcription of Kylin) should also by mentioned.
Next: The Prince piece. Do you remember our long discussion here:
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Jeremy Lennert came up with the name Dullahan in 2012, and it is featured under this name in my Fearful Fairies. Dullahan and Banshee are a perfect male/female pair of pieces (males are short range, females are sliders; inspired by Kind and Queen)
The last comment for today:
Since the Vulture is featured here, the related and simpler pieces Biok and Roshop (V. R. Parton, Chess Curiouser & Curiouser, 1961) should be added here. Alternatively, the Vulture can be postponed to a part where Biok and Roshop are featured.
Biok moves as Bishop, captures as Rook. Appears in "Enlarged and Improved Chess" (1696) as Ensign (original German: Fähnrich).
Roshop moves as Rook, captures as Bishop. Appears in "Enlarged and Improved Chess" (1696) as Guard (original German: Trabant)
Edit: Corrected year for "Enlarged and Improved Chess": It is indeed from the 17th century. That Chess variant was precognitive!
The very last comment for today:
There is an alternative name for the Camel-Rider, namely Mehari used by French Problemists. It can be found on Jerome Grimberts pages here
Take the time you need to tame this monster.
There is another minor correction left:
'Knight-Camel-Wazir', see 'Eutonic-Knight'.
should have the "T" for "Teutonic", too.
Fearful fairies. An experimental army for CadA, featuring the Dullahan (Ferz-Knight compound) and the Banshee. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thanks, its corrected now.
Fairy Pieces Part 2. Showcasing 158 Fairy Pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This is a remark on spelling: The little Fers/Ferz occurs in both spellings in this file. Both spellings are legitimate but I think you should decide on one and use it consistently and mention the other one only in the main entry for the piece. My personal preference is Ferz with z, but I don't mind if you use Fers throughout.
Emperor (Marquis)
I think this is worth mentioning:
Plays in 'Jetan', 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Called 'Thoat'.
Lion-Grande_Acedrez:
The combined (0,3)(1,3) leaper (Camel+Threeleaper) plays in Citadelir Chess 2020, Daphne Snowmoon. Named Prophet.
Knight-Dabbaba-Fers
I have not noticed this combined leaper in any game.
Typo (Cut-and-paste error):
Currently, Zebra-Wazir and Zebra-Wazir-Fers are duplicated
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@H.G.Muller Thank you for the interactive diagram!