Discussion of chess variants
In looking for variants that may be comp-resistant, easy to visualize 'drops' of captured pcs seemed to me as desirable, as in Shogi, bughouse or crazyhouse. For aesthetics (IMHO), & to please chess/(chess variant) players, I want western style chess pieces, so any Shogi variant was out. I want 2 player game, but it costs little to note 10x10 crazyhouse variant quickly leads to 10x10 bughouse variant. I hadn't found 10x10 variants for crazyhouse & bughouse invented. I suspect ...
Updated 08-03-2016 at 05:53 PM by Kevin Pacey
For chess variants/board games of skill 12 criteria, 9 games scored 0-4 & 13th scored by # non-0 scores for 1st 12 criteria. 9: Chess, Chess960, Doubles Chess (Bughouse), Shogi, Go, Arimaa & 3 of my variants (Throne Chess, 4*Chess & Sac Chess). Sac Chess hopes for 1st & do bett than 0 in 1st 12 criteria. 12: 1. Computer-resistant (v men not close to best); 2. Any endgame stage not in signif danger of comprom e.g. by tablebases (adjourn ...
Updated 07-01-2017 at 02:06 PM by Kevin Pacey
The following is based on old chesstalk forum posts and blog entries of mine, concerning "Throne Chess": [edit: my first mentioning of it, on chesstalk, occured on 28 May 2013 in the following thread.] http://www.chesstalk.info/forum/show...ry-Rare/page10 Here's a simple idea for a chess variant, one which might decrease the number of games resulting in draws (compared to standard chess), which I call Throne ...
Updated 08-03-2016 at 05:59 PM by Kevin Pacey
Here's a 4 dimensional chess game that can be played as if on a 2D plane. [first update: A 16x16 board with appropriate spacing could be used even on a coffee table; it would be about the size of a Scrabble board (15x15 for that).] Using a computer program for it, a player could check if he is making a legal move, and whether it is mate or stalemate, for example. [second update: I call it 4*Chess, assuming the name is not taken.] It's based on a BASIC computer program I made for it in the 1980's, ...
Updated 08-26-2016 at 07:27 PM by Kevin Pacey
Here's 10x10 computer-resistant(?) chess variant (large # legal moves + heuristics): chess pcs & the classic 6 chess variant compound pcs. Orderly setup: 1st-3rd ranks full, std chess pcs start pos kind of kept [1st update: Fools mate & kind of Scholars mate poss; links below]: Code: Col a Col b Col c Col d Col e Col f Col g Col h Col i Col j Row xx [C] :[A]: [S] :[Z]: [M] :[M]: [Z] :[S]: [A] :[C]: 10 :[J]: [R] ...
Col a Col b Col c Col d Col e Col f Col g Col h Col i Col j Row xx [C] :[A]: [S] :[Z]: [M] :[M]: [Z] :[S]: [A] :[C]: 10 :[J]: [R]
Updated 08-10-2018 at 11:35 PM by Kevin Pacey