What was new in January - March 2001?
- Week of March 26 - April 1, 2001:
- Gigachess. On 14 by 14 board with 20 different pieces. By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- Equestrian Chess. On diamond shaped board with reentry squares and different pieces. By Jason D. Wittman.
- Construction Chess. The idea for this variant is to give each player the possibility to construct his own chess army. By João Pedro Neto.
- Photo's of Tai Chess (Makruk) set.
- Augmented Half chess. Pieces can go half as far, but then are augmented with additional movement possibilities. By Ralph Betza.
- Shatranji, a hybrid of Chessgi and Shatranj. By Fergus Duniho.
- The Art of Chess Variants: an interview with French chess variant books author Jean-Louis Cazaux.
- We now have an official postal address.
- Week of March 19 - March 26, 2001:
- Solutions to problems of the Hexagonal Chess Problem Solving contest.
- Bingo Chess. Combination game of chess and bingo. By Doug Chatham.
- ZRF for Crazyhouse updated to include a black and red faux marble board.
- ZRF for Chessgi updated to include a green and skyblue marble board.
- Augmented Chess. Players give standard chess pieces small additional movement possibilities from predescribed set. By Ralph Betza.
- New pieces in the Piececlopedia:
- ZRF for Mortal Chessgi updated to include marble board.
- Halfgi. A hybrid of Chessgi and Ralph Betza's Half Chess. By Peter Aronson. ZRF available for download.
- Peter Aronson wins Hexagonal Problem solving contest.
- Variant Chess. A new feature on the Chess Variant Pages: excerpts from Variant Chess, the journal of the British Chess Variant Society!
- Bottleneck Chess. Most pieces start the game locked up in two bottleneck parts of the board. By Köksal Karakus. Submission to the contest to design a chess variant on a board with 41 squares.
- Isle of Lewis Chess piece images for use with Zillions of Games. By Tony Quintanilla.
- EPIC GAMES 3-D CHESSBOARDS (Link.)
- Week of March 12 - March 18, 2001:
- Doubting the estimate of Halfling Value, by Ralph Betza.
- ZRF for Halfling Chess and variants. Zillions file by Peter Aronson for Betza's Halfling Chess variants.
- Ice Hockey Chess. Chess variant based upon rules of (Ice) Hockey. By Francois Tremblay.
- Mortal Chessgi. A Chessgi game in which captures reduce material. By Fergus Duniho.
- Halfchess. Pieces have approximately half their usual movement possibilities. By Ralph Betza.
- Photo's of Shogi Set.
- Fusion Diamond 41. A Fusion Chess variant played on a diamond shaped board of 41 squares. By Fergus Duniho. Submission to the contest to design a chess variant on 41 squares
- Assimilation Chess. Increase your material by assimilating your opponent's pieces. By Fergus Duniho.
- Assimilation Fusion Chess. A hybrid of Assimilation Chess and Fusion Chess. Pieces combine and split apart. By Fergus Duniho.
- Week of March 5 - March 11, 2001:
- An Introduction to Shogi for Chess Players: crockfordshogi.html (Link.)
- Hexabeast. Hexagonal chess variant with six animal pieces, by Ivan A. Derzhanski.
- Clash of Command. Chesslike game with pieces that change and leave behind other pieces on special board. By Peter Stobbe. Submission to the contest to design a chess variant on a board with 41 squares.
- New files for Zillions of Games:
- Subway chess. ZRF by Peter Aronson.
- Reenterent Chess. ZRF by Peter Aronson.
- Transpose Chess. ZRF by Köksal Karakus.
- Clash of Command. ZRF by Peter Stobbe.
- Halflings: Corrected Calculations, and Halflings 2. By Ralph Betza. Ideas and analysis on pieces that can travel half their usual distance.
- Superchess. Four-handed chess game playable by two or four players. By Rolf W. Jacobson.
- Reenterent chess. There is one additional square where taken pieces can wait to reenter 5 by 8 main area. By Edward Lovett. Submission to the contest to design a chess variant on 41 squares.
- Tamerlane chess: Arabshah version. Information on historic variant of the variant Tamerlane chess. By Ivan A. Derzhanski and Hans Bodlaender.
- Week of February 26 - March 4, 2001:
- Zrf file: hexchess.zip (32Kb) by Jens Markmann. Updated version with bug fix.
- Strong Pawn Chess. Pawns move in a similar fashion to the pieces they start in front of. By Este.
- ShatraDev. A new and improved version of a Windows program (95/98/NT) that plays Shatra. Program written by Francis Monkman.
- Halflings. Pieces that can travel at most half their usual distance. By Ralph Betza.
- Kriegspiel problems. Two Kriegspiel mate in two problems by Henk Swart
- Week of February 19 - February 25, 2001:
- Chess Variant Construction Kit. Windows utility that allows players to play chess variants via email. By Jim Wickson.
- A Chess Morality: Castle Early. Poem on Falcon Chess, by George William Duke.
- Scrabble Battle chess. Complicated game that uses a scrabble set, dice, playing cards with magic spells, pieces that move queenlike but have different strengths, terrain, etc. By John Garwood.
- Kobayashi Maru Variant of Star Trek 3-D Chess. A variant set of rules for playing chess using the 3 dimensionsal set featured on the TV series Star Trek. By L. Lynn Smith.
- Super Chess and Monarch. Dutch booklet on two large chess variants with many options for pieces.
- Zillions file for Free Corners Chess. Chess variant by Sergey Sirotkin, ZRF by Peter Aronson.
- Photo's of Korean Chess set.
- Week of February 12 - February 18, 2001:
- Chess'3. Updated description for chess variant on 10 by 10 board.
- New Double Chess sample game. Sent by David Short.
- Free corners chess. In the corners of seven by seven board, three squares form together one field. By Sergej Sirotkin. Submission to the contest to design a chess variant on a board with 41 squares.
- Symmetrical Chess Collection. Collection of several large symmetric chess variants with only line pieces. By Derek Nalls.
- Crooked Bishop. Moves in a diagonal zigzagline. New piece in the Piececlopedia.
- Week of February 5 - February 11, 2001:
- Mushroom. Jumping piece whose destination squares form a mushroom pattern. New piece for the Piececlopedia.
- Chess 68. 8 x 8 board with 4 extra corner squares, two extra piece types. By Setti Roberto.
- ZRF-file for Espionage Chess. Game of Sergey Sirotkin; Zillions-file by Peter Aronson.
- Hexagonal Chess problem solving contest. Help us celebrate 6 years of the Chess Variant Pages!
- Week of January 29 - February 4, 2001:
- Enemy progressive chess. Make one normal move and an increasing number of moves with enemy pieces. Variant of Sergej Sirotkin.
- Week of January 22 - January 28, 2001:
- Big Board Chess. On a 10 by 10 board with individual opening setup. By Prof. A. Schönfelder.
- King's progressive chess. Players may make a number of moves in a turn, depending on row where king is on. By Sergej Sirotkin.
- Espionage chess. Spy can only be captured in turn after it has moved in 41-square variant. By Sergej Sirotkin.
- Week of January 15 - January 21, 2001:
- Family matters chess (small). Variant on 41 square board. By Tomas Forsman. Submission to the contest to design a chess variant on a board with 41 squares.
- Week of January 8 - January 14, 2001:
- Endgame analysis for Hexagonal Chess. Extensive computer analysis of endgames for hexagonal chess for two kings and two other pieces, by Dave McCooey. (Update.)
- 32-Turn Contest Results. As judged by Alessandro Castelli.
- Hexagonal chess: names of squares. Official names of the hexes of Glinski's Hexagonal Chess.
- Hexagonal Chess problem solving contest.
- Week of January 1 - January 7, 2001:
- Cut Corner Chess. 8 bishops, 10 rooks, 4 queens, 1 king on large irregularly shaped board. By Derek Nalls.
- Double-Ended Chess. Captures are by withdrawal and approach. By Peter Aronson.
- Infinite Chess. Chess on an infinite board.
- Chameleon. Chess variant on board of 41 colored squares, where pieces change type depending on color of square the move to. By Tony Quintanilla.
WWW page created: May 8, 2001.