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Tamerlane chess. A well-known historic large variant of Shatranj. (11x10, Cells: 112) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Nuno Cruz wrote on Wed, Dec 24, 2008 02:59 PM UTC:

There is a free on line font that has the pieces of chess as well as of shogi.. but also of Tamerlane chess(!). I made a screenshot that you can see below.

the link for this site is: en.grinningbit.com

Alpha Variant Font. Preview of the new Alpha Variant font along with new Alfaerie graphics.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Nuno Cruz wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2008 07:33 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

This project has stopped or is already concluded?

Mideast chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board, inspired by ancient Tamerlane chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Nuno Cruz wrote on Sun, Dec 28, 2008 04:04 PM UTC:

I was just browsing the pdf of Falkener Book (available on line for download) and I noticed that for Tamerlane chess he modified some piece names for people of the west (Americans in this case but also true for Europeans) to better understand them. Some names that he gave to pieces were precisely the ones given in this variant.
Most probably the inventor was familiarized with Falkere's book.

Wazir. Moves one square orthogonally.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Nuno Cruz wrote on Sun, Jan 25, 2009 11:45 PM UTC:

'The Wazir, or Generalissimo. He moved straight, only one square (...). It is evident, however, that he could, 'slowly, but surely' cover all the squares of the board, hence is value was greater than that of the Farz which could cover no more than one half of the board.

(Forbes, page 141)

Is this true? I had the idea that, even colorbound, the Ferz was slightly more valuable..

Omega Chess. Rules for commercial chess variant on board with 104 squares. (12x12, Cells: 104) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Nuno wrote on Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:27 PM UTC:

This game adds in an ingenious way the movements of several pieces of
Tamerlane chess, which is the 'grandfather' variant of all these XX and
XXI century 'chess variants boom': We have the camels, dabbaba, ferz,
alfil and wazir.

What if they were mixed on the other form? Substitute wazir by ferz (so
the champion is now colorbound) and the ferz by wazir (so now the wizard
is not colorbound). Anyone can try this at home without breaking
copyright. I think... But my idea is not that. Just to say that is is
interesting to try to see if the game becomes more complex or not, more
interesting or not.

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