What was new in January 1998?

• January 30, 1998: Results and Index page of the 2nd World Wide Web Championship Progressive Fischer Random Chess.
• January 30, 1998: Hourglass Chess. 38-Square board in shape of Hourglass. (Entry to the 38-challenge.)
• January 29, 1998: Abstract chess set. Photo's of a chess set I designed about 15 years ago.
• January 28, 1998: Coherent Chess. Variant on 9 by 9 board with special knights.
• January 28, 1998: Global Chess. Commercial variant with two interlocking round boards. (Link.)
• January 28, 1998: Pirates-Henge-Ho. Small variant with pirates theme. (Entry to the 38-challenge.)
• January 28, 1998: My38 Chess. Variant on board with 38 squares. (Entry to the 38-challenge.)
• January 26, 1998: Arnhem Chess. Game on board of 38 squares, designed by Hans Bodlaender. (Not competing in the 38-challenge, as I thought it would be improper to compete as organizer.)
• January 26, 1998: Cobra Chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board with new pieces, including the Cobra.
• January 26, 1998: The Grand Crossing. Win by moving your king to the opponents site of the board.
• January 26, 1998: Five stars chess. One can also win by `five in a row'.
• January 26, 1998: Fifty-fifty chess. Mating is allowed after having taken eight pieces.
• January 26, 1998: The Disguised King. Unknown pawn becomes royal piece.
• January 26, 1998: Blackjack chess. Win also if the value of pieces you have is exactly 21 points.
• January 23, 1998: Cubic Chess. Three dimensional chess variant on 7 by 7 by 7 board. (Link.)
• January 23, 1998: Link page for Shogi - Japanese Chess by Roger Hare. Information on shogi rules, variants, software, books, organizations, etc.
• January 21, 1998: Alastair Scott's `Chess Word Macro's and Fonts' site now has been moved to the Chess Variant Pages: new location.
• January 21, 1998: The Chess Utrecht font in sit.hqx-format for Mac-owners. Chessfont usuable for owners of a Macintosh.
• January 19, 1998: Minigolf chess. Pieces have momentum, bounce against the walls, and can be spinned in variant on 8 by 16 board.
• January 19, 1998: Chess on a really big board. Large chess variants by Ralph Betza.
• January 19, 1998: Golden Age Chess. Variant on 16 by 16 board with several different pieces.
• January 19, 1998: The All-Around Allstars. A set of chess pieces with different movement, that can be matched against a usual set of pieces or another army of equal strength. (Revised considerably.)
• January 19, 1998: Chess Magnetic. Chess font based on magnetic chess set by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• January 14, 1998: Insane. Pieces change to random type when they move. With program playing this variant.
• January 13, 1998: Chivalrous Attrition. Two knights jump over and may not go to visited squares. (Link.)
• January 13, 1998: Andernach chess. Pieces change side when taking.
• January 13, 1998: Heart chess. Chessboard in form of heart.
• January 13, 1998: Some texts have updated graphics.
• January 12, 1998: Upchess. Pieces moves depend on which rank piece is on on 11 by 11 board.
• January 12, 1998: New address for the US Problem Bulletin.
• January 8, 1998: Betza's Three Dimensional Chess Games. Several 3d-chess variants by Ralph Betza.
• January 6, 1998: 3D Chess 4 Cubed. Three dimensional chess on 4 by 4 by 4 board. (Link.)
• January 5, 1998: Hammer Chess. Pieces have increaded movement possibilities.
• January 5, 1998: Flip Chess and Flip Shogi. Pieces have two sides with different movements on board of 38 squares. (Entry in `38-contest'.)
• January 5, 1998: Thematic Chess. (Fairy) Chess problem theme with two problems.
• January 2, 1998: Hasami Shogi. Popular Japanese game, playable with Shogi set. Also: Hasami Chess.
• January 2, 1998: Rotary. On a 9 by 9 board with rotating pieces.