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Beautiful Beasts. A new team for Chess with Different Armies based on the Roc.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Did you find a decisive tactical thread, and if yes, against which army?
Fibnif. Moves one diagonally or makes a forwards or backwards knight jump.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I do not like the renaming of the piece to "Lancer" because that name is already taken: Problemists have named the (2,4)-leaper lancer. The name is also dangerously close to the piece named Lance in standard Shogi.
Betza notation (extended). The powerful XBetza extension to Betza's funny notation.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Is it really the combination of Maorider + Moarider that you describe here
Moorider: afz(afzafz)K
Or does your description allow the rider for each step choosing again between Mao and Mao steps? A simple combination piece must choose one step pattern (Mao or Moa) for all of its steps.
Fairy Pieces Part 2. Showcasing 158 Fairy Pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I have found my notes with a longer list of games with the Knight-Wazir combination piece (Emperor/Marquis)
Here are the games:
Plays in Thronschach, 2000. Glenn Overby II. Called 'Marquis'.
Appears in Gerneric Piece Creation System, 2000, Guilherme S. Töws. Called 'Marquis'
Plays as a royal piece in Mad, 2000, Jason D. Wittmann. Called 'Stone King' or simply 'King'
Plays in Achernar, 2003. Roberto Lavieri. Called 'Grand Horse'.
Plays in veSQuj, 2005. Glenn Overby II. Called 'Brigadier'.
Plays in Lùotuoqí, 2005. Various authors. Called 'Mule'.
Plays in Opulent Chess, 2005. Greg Strong. Called 'Knight'.
Plays in Nova Chess, 2003. Michael Howe. Called 'Cavalier'. [Note: Contribution retracted and no longer available. I still have a printout on paper]
President Chess. Members-Only Even after a checkmate, the game isn’t over. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Pyramid Chess. Members-Only Kings clash for the summit of a hexagonal grid pyramid. (Cells: 120) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Acid Chess. Members-Only Pieces slowly decay, but active ones do it faster. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Recharged Chess. Upgrades on ranks two and eight. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I think I get it as such: The pawns starting from rank 1 (9) get recharged on rank 2 (8). On field e1 is the King, so no rule for row e is needed. Skipping rank 2 seems possible, but why should a player make such kind of move? This recharging is a king of gate-in where the pieces to be gated in are already present as pawns on the initial board.
Gravitational Chess. Major units fall back toward the friendly side.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Playing around with the interactive board I start appreciating this great invention. It looks like Chess in the first sight, but it is so different!
Knights are colourbound, Bishops are colourswitching, but both pieces keep control over their original target squares, provided there is a fall-back square behind. All pieces are more powerful in the endgame compared to the normal Chess men. One rook can mate unassisted and forced, one bishop and a king mate against a lone king.
Some open questions, to one who has access to the original sources for that game:
Is castling really allowed while rooks cannot move along their base lines? It fells like cheating even more than in standard Chess.
Can rooks and queens pass a move (going one step orthogonally forward and fall back)?
Can rooks and queens capture by igui a piece in front of them ending on their starting square (can only be a pawn)?
Not knowing the original description by the author of that variant it is only a guess.
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Usually this kind of spam consists in creating a personal profile only, and because no none notices that personal profile it is considered usually harmless. But in this instance the spammer tries to stir up attention by posting well-formed nonsense in the comments.
The moderators of this site should act appropriately.
Featured Chess Variants. Chess Variants Featured in our Page Headers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]A new nomination for a featured variant:
Separate Realms Chess by Mike Nelson and Peter Aronson.
Quote from the comments section: "A few simple rules changes have produced what is definitely a tournament-quality game." (Joe Joyce)
It has inspired two more chessvariants of myself which are among my favorites.
Here's my next nomination.
This nomination is a bid to push the envelope of recognised Chess Variants:
Jupiter (revised) by Adrian King
A variant on a really huge board with lot of different pieces and an overwhelming number of promotions.
Or, to say it with the words of its inventor "Everything worth doing is worth overdoing"
... and now for something completely different:
Still in the childhood memory of many people, and it is real fun to play. It also has inspired some more Smess Variants here.
Yet another nomination:
It is marked as recognised in the alphabetical index, but it has not yet been featured or recognised variant of the month. It is still the second most popular board game in Thailand (after Thai checkers).
Rook. Moves across unobstructed orthogonal line.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Great, this article is much better now.
I tested it and it happened to me, too. I used shift-Reload (on Firefox) to bypass the cache, and voilà, the newest comments are also here.
Three Pieces Chess. Members-Only Chess with three types of pieces. (9x6, Cells: 54) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Two Pieces Chess. Chess with two types of pieces. (9x6, Cells: 54) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Tried it out in the interactive diagram—great game with strategical depth. It took me 55-something moves to checkmate the engine.
Three Pieces Chess. Members-Only Chess with three types of pieces. (9x6, Cells: 54) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Bearable Berserkers. Members-Only An army where a piece cannot travel if that piece can capture. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
Featured Chess Variants. Chess Variants Featured in our Page Headers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]February is approaching around the globe ... what will be the featured variant of this month?
Great!
Lancer-Spiel. Members-Only Alternative version of Courier-Spiel, using Fibnifs (Lancers). (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since this comment is for a page that has not been published yet, you must be signed in to read it.
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The banner still says "Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for November, 2024.". Should read "December" here, shouldn't it?