Discussion of chess variants
Here's a 4D game Super4*Chess - can be played as if on a 2D plane. A 16x16 board with appropriate spacing could be used even on a coffee table; it'd be about size of Scrabble board (15x15 for that). The following is start position for the 16 4x4 mini-boards game is played on: Code: Col =a= and file Col =b= and file Col =c= and file Col =d= and file Row and rank aa ab ac ad ba bb bc bd ca cb cc cd da db dc dd Rr [X] [B] [B] [R] [T] ...
Col =a= and file Col =b= and file Col =c= and file Col =d= and file Row and rank aa ab ac ad ba bb bc bd ca cb cc cd da db dc dd Rr [X] [B] [B] [R] [T]
Updated 11-26-2016 at 05:09 AM by Kevin Pacey
Further below is score of a solitaire dice Sac Chess game. Play took 3 hrs. Used the CFC Discussion Board's message preview capability for blogs. Repeatedly previewing a message that might not be posted, with changes to a message before previews, can be used in the CFC Discussion Board's Forums (or Chesstalk Forums) too. Links below aren't needed to follow game. http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/en...-(Part-1-of-2) ...
Updated 06-17-2017 at 05:29 PM by Kevin Pacey
Here's a solitaire chess variant I came up with, if no one else has thought of it. It's to play a normally 2-sided game of chess (or chess variant, or possibly another board game of skill) against yourself, and you (as White or Black for the whole game) select 'your side's' moves normally on 'your turn'. For the other side's turns, select six moves which you think are among its best moves. Assign each move (in writing or by memory) a number from 1 to 6, then roll a widely available ...
Updated 08-03-2016 at 05:43 PM by Kevin Pacey
I thought I'd discuss a possibly untried 'low tech' method for playing chess variants (even untried/obscure ones) by email/internet (i.e. with no physical board or pieces needed), in case anyone hasn't thought of it already. It came to me when I tried to make primitive chess variant diagrams for a test email message, thus first confirming to myself that single letters do not automatically align nicely the way I'd like using any old Font. Naturally using a server, app or computer playing program ...
Updated 08-03-2016 at 05:44 PM by Kevin Pacey
The following is based on a four dimensional chess variant of mine (a link devoted to it is provided much further below, as are links for some other games mentioned): Here's an idea for four dimensional crazyhouse and bughouse chess variants that can be played as if on a two dimensional plane (a 16x16 board, with appropriate spacing, could be used for 4D crazyhouse even on a coffee table; it would be about the size of a Scrabble board [15x15 in that case] - using a computer program ...
Updated 08-03-2016 at 05:45 PM by Kevin Pacey