Discussion of chess variants
Included below are links to The Chess Variant Pages website re: descriptions of 4 chess variant inventions of mine, most thought of within the last couple of years. On that free membership website, members can play all 4 of these using its Game Courier email system: 10x8 Hannibal Chess (includes elephant pieces that leap 1 or 2 squares diagonally); with mention of link about old classic 10x8 Janus Chess (therein, link given about old classic 10x8 Capablanca Chess): ...
Updated 09-10-2018 at 01:16 AM by Kevin Pacey
Please click on this blog entry if at all interested in chess variants (fairy chess). I'm looking for a crude (if rather low) worldwide estimate of such people. Included below are links/info/thoughts about chess variants that may be of some interest. 1st link: chessvariants.com (free membership): http://www.chessvariants.com/ Note that for 2016, the webmaster informs me that the main site for chessvariants.com has been getting in the neighborhood of 50,000 ...
Updated 07-01-2017 at 02:44 PM by Kevin Pacey
Below are links to two wide board chess variant inventions of mine that have pages on The Chess Variant Pages; on that free membership website, members can play these variants with its Game Courier email system: 12x10 Wide Nightrider Chess (includes Nightrider and Champion fairy chess pieces plus fast castling rules): http://www.chessvariants.com/rules/w...ghtrider-chess 12x8 Wide Chess (includes 2 kinds of non-colour-bound elephant pieces plus fast ...
Updated 09-09-2018 at 11:36 PM by Kevin Pacey
FYI, link included for free chess variants package (plays e.g. my 10x10 Sac Chess [std 6 chess pcs & the 6 classic chess variant compound pcs]): From Chess.com circa 2016, here's part of a post by Dr. H.G. Muller, partly re: Sac Chess (a bit computer-resistant variant: large # legal moves + heuristics), to play chess variants against a computer, or to program one to do so: "...I happen to host a package of WinBoard + Sjaak II at http://hgm.nubati.net/SacChess.zip ...
Updated 11-25-2017 at 05:10 PM by Kevin Pacey
Here's a 4D game I call 5*4DChess that has the following start position, with 25 5x5 mini-boards: Code: a a a a a b b b b b c c c c c d d d d d e e e e e a b c d e a b c d e a b c d e a b c d e a b c d e Rr j n r b x j n r b x t n r n t s d d u h s d d u k 55 p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 54 : : : : : : : : : : : : : 53 : : : : : : : : : : ...
a a a a a b b b b b c c c c c d d d d d e e e e e a b c d e a b c d e a b c d e a b c d e a b c d e Rr j n r b x j n r b x t n r n t s d d u h s d d u k 55 p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 54 : : : : : : : : : : : : : 53 : : : : : : : : : :
Updated 08-03-2016 at 05:32 PM by Kevin Pacey