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Momentum Chess. Pieces keep moving in the same direction. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]very intersting idea, too bad no zrf. i have not seen anything like this concept, is there anything else with this theme? Anyway, very, very, good.
Dead Ringers Chess. Double chess game with twin pieces that are captured simultaneously. (2x(8x8), Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this game is pretty 'out there' too, extremely interesting. Looked a bit at the game courier games, seems to play very good, congrats.
Fusion Chess. Variant in which pieces may merge together or split apart. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this game too is fascinating, this game started your other variants on this theme right? (assimilation chess etc) Very complex, at least for me anyway ... all variants on this theme you have done seem to be all good too, well done.
Time Traveler's Chess
. Chess pieces may travel backwards in time.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]this game is so bent i can't understand it at all, but it reads extremely interesting, to say the least .. check out here, direct link to game explanation - http://www.geocities.com/chessdp/ttchsrules.htm now how bizzare is this explanation of the game! How can i rate a game i can't understand, pfft, it is so easy :))
Chieftain Chess. Missing description (16x12, Cells: 192) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]well this is a very interesting game, 16x12 wooah, big, and looks great. Command and control, Joe you big kid!! Love the idea of the 'chiefs' moving their armies, very cool, love it.
ChessV. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Oh, i posted a few weeks ago, but it seems when all those dumb 'my chess program is better than yours' posts were deleted, my post went too. Ok, so, what a brilliant program! And it's free! And best of all, for me anyway, it plays Great Shatranj, and it plays very good with pawns too. Hopefully, this program will just get better and better, congrats Greg!!
Capablanca Shatranj. Capablanca Chess with Chancellor and Archbishop replaced by Shatranj type pieces. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]sorry, i have added variant specific castling information to the description of each game (in-game help/description). so it is updated, you can download at zillions site
Sam,the link you gave should enable you to see the game http://www.worldchess2006.com/main.asp?id=926 at first i just saw the opening position, till i realised you must click on the players names, directly under the board. Highlight their names, and then the moves will come up. (link i gave is from official site, after you click on 'games' and then 'game 1'
yeah it is not a very good design, and at the moment (was ok earlier) it seems sometimes you need to refresh, then highlight names again and click on '>>' to go to last move ...
Taikyoku Shogi. Extremely large shogi variant. (36x36, Cells: 1296) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]well then, if you like big war games, it sounds great
Gods on Pluto. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Charles, you’re a funny guy :) I wasn’t going to say anything, but I can’t help myself, I must protest this great injustice to Pluto. You know, there is just something about Pluto, I love that little guy! And, I don’t care what the scientists say Pluto is, it will always be a planet to me. Besides, there are scientists that still call Pluto a planet, so it is ok. Yes, what an embarrassment for the scientists this year lol, when it became known to the general mass of people, that they didn’t really have a clear idea what a planet was!! Interestingly, that didn’t stop them from naming planet after planet, till we were told we had 8 other planets around us. I am not sure, but I think in 2009, they will meet again, our brilliant minds, and then, most likely, we will have a new definition of a planet, and maybe, just maybe, Pluto will be a planet again ha ha. Actually, there is practically no doubt they will produce a new definition. Anyway, on the up side, there is a spaceship on it’s way to the outer reaches, to visit Pluto and beyond, called ‘New Horizons’. Home Page – http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php Mission page - http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/mission_timeline.html This could be the fastest spacecraft ever, it reaches Jupiter in early 2007, it left Earth Jan 19, 2006! see here http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/New_Horizons.html
even if kram wins, when the 2007 wc comes around, he won't go in it, say he is 'classical' world champ, and we will get 2 world champs again.
2006 World Chess Variants Championship on-line. World Chess Variants Championship.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]There was a recent comment saying that this should not be regarded as a 'world championship'. i just want to say here that i strongly disagree with that comment, i see no reason why this should not be seen, as indeed, a 'world championship'.
Jeremy, you say .... Why did Topalov have such relatively low grade seconds? Who would you rather have, Bareev and Svidler (Kramnik) or Cheparinov and Vallejo (Topalov)? well he is rated ... 34 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2674 And, from what i've read on chess forums during the match just played, Vallejo did a great job, possibly the best of any of them. He is 34th in the world, been higher than that too i think, and played so often against the greats because at Linares .. plus he is a opening theory study guy. I think he did a great job. stop bagging Vallejo :))
he is the hometown boy, why can't he play if they want, he doesn't mess up the tournament or anything, in 2004 linares i think it was, he drew both games with kramnik, and both games with topa! linares wouldn't be linares with vallejo!
The ShortRange Project. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Joe, please feel free to be the spokesperson here, you're doing a great job.
Thanks everyone for your comments and interest, and thanks to Joe for the fine essay he has written on this project. i don't see myself really as writing the zrf's, more like hacking hehe, i'd rather see myself as a creator of games, but you know :)
Michael Nelson said:
While I love the Shatranj Pawns in the variants, I think that a shortrange piece game with stronger Pawns might be most interesting as well.
Michael, as Joe answered, all games except 'Shatranj 10x8' have modern pawns and castling. I do feel this is an important aspect of gameplay, it is like the 'platform' that 'The ShortRange Project' plays upon. i do think it is interesting, and a lot of fun.
Well i don't know if we are releasing the game this week at zillions now, i want to add a 5th zrf, and i guess i should talk to Joe about it.
It is a nice little add, ...
oh i forgot to say before, but there is a copy of the text file that describes each game added to this page now.
Joe says ..
I will note that while it's easy to tell our writing apart, people will find it much harder to tell our designs apart, as we fall into the category of designers exemplified by Fighting Kings and Royal Pawn Chess. And since we discuss games and look at each other's work, it's sometimes hard for us to tell just who did what. [Now if we could only understand each other...]
Wow, very nicely put. Looking at the games now, it seems like one person put them together. i know i was doing stuff thinking 'you are going to like this' and visa versa, but how does this explain the 50 million emails that went down all with the theme of 'what are you talking about?!' lol.
Viking Chess Set. Game board and pieces in search of rules. (Cells: 37) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Yes UGLi, well noted. The extreme outer part could be a place for the missing '4th' position, but this still doesn't work, each quarter of this board has 3 spaces within it, the Byzantine board has 4, so this cannot be a Byzantine board.
* 3 spaces on one file or row or whatever call it. It has 9 spaces in total within a quarter, while Byzantine has 16.
The centre also is different, being more a 'point' than a 'circle'.
Feedback to the Chess Variant Pages - How to contactus. Including information on editors and associate authors of the website.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]you are on the wrong page, you should read here http://www.chessvariants.org/d.chess/chess.html
Combo Modern Day Chess. Guard replaces the Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]well i don't understand something here, if the 'guard' can move 1 or 2 squares in any direction, it must be easily more powerful than the knight or bishop, but you say it is not as strong as these pieces ... even a piece that can move like a 'king' is more powerful than a knight or bishop. Joe and i recently put out 'the shortrange project', and in these variants we have a 'sliding general' (moves 1 or 2 squares any direction) or a 'queen-2-slider' (moves like a queen, but only 1 or 2 squares), and both of these are easily more powerful than the humble yet beautiful bishop and knight. so either i don't understand how your guard moves, or you don't realise how powerful it is :)
Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]don't know, probably someone who wants to know how to play chess, or look up something they are not sure of ...
Chaturanga. The first known variant of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]king starts on different square, and also the king, just once in the game, can make a knight move ... there may be something else about the pawns and promotion, but it is all unclear, i think, bit like me, answering this question :))
ChessV. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]hey Greg, thanks for adding the option to play 'Capablanca Shatranj' variants with your program!! I heard (thru the grapevine) about big things coming up for ChessV program too :))
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