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Chess Cards. Cardgame with chess flavor.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Alex Fink wrote on Sat, Apr 13, 2002 11:56 PM UTC:

In the Chess Cards variant, it seems that it is indeed possible to achieve the maximum score of 990 points. Suppose that player A is dealt bQ rQ rR rB yQ yR yB wB wN wP and player B is dealt bR bB bN bP rN rP yN yP wQ wR. First A plays two red cards, and B must counter with two red cards; then A plays two yellow cards and B must counter with two yellow cards; then if A plays the black Queen, having sacrificed the other five cards, B will be able to play five of his other cards but will be mated on the tenth move. B can never gain the initiative, so with best play by A the maximum mate score will necessarily ensue ... unless B sacrifices a card. Then again, any time that A plays his last card on move 5 and B is facing certain defeat, he can certainly sacrifice some cards so that the maximum score cannot be achieved. Still, my game above seems to come as close as possible to this result.

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Sun, Nov 23, 2008 02:31 AM UTC:

I manage to made this game on Zillions. It doesn't have scoring, and it doesn't swap the cards dealt around, but the other rules it works OK (as far as I know). ChessCards.zrf / Z_GenImg library files

Push top-right corner (h8 cell) to pass your turn, or to deal cards
Leading player moves a piece to the top row
Following player moves to second row, then both pieces are destroyed
Blank piece in top-right corner (h8 cell) means initiative is changed
Move a piece to bottom-right corner (h1 cell) to sacrifice a piece
Different suits are by different columns
Queen privilege is done by leading number 5 and changing to 'Privilege' piece
Columns farther to the right are worth more than columns on the left
Whoever is unable to follow must change one of their own pieces to 'losing-piece'
Anyone who has a 'losing-piece' on board loses the game immediately
Moving a numbered piece to top-right corner (h8 cell) also causes you to lose immediately

Aaron Dalton wrote on Wed, Feb 4, 2009 11:02 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

I have implemented Chess Cards on my free boardgaming website, Super Duper Games.

Aaron Dalton wrote on Mon, Jun 8, 2009 10:52 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

I have designed a card set for this game and uploaded the graphics at BGG. 
Here's the zip file itself:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/43454

Here's a montage of what the cards look like:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/494828

Cheers!
Aaron

Joe Joyce wrote on Mon, Jun 8, 2009 11:05 PM UTC:

Hey, Aaron, thanks! Nice to see someone has revived yet another highly interesting variant from the not-so-distant past. We appreciate your work. Score 1 for IAGO, eh? Joe

Michael Amundsen wrote on Thu, Feb 2, 2017 08:01 AM UTC:

I translated this game into a board game just to see what it would look like. I think it's interesting, but it (the way I did it, at least) has the effect of taking away the Chess theme, which makes it no longer qualify as a Chess variant. You can check out how to play Chess Cards without the cards over at BGG.

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