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Hitchhiker Chess. Get your Hitchhiker to the Restaurant at the other End of the Board; inspired by Douglas Adams' books. (Cells: 42) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Well, if I could give a definite answer to your question, I would. <p>
The last sentence of the Mine description says, 'Detonation of a <i>live</i> Mine can be prevented by capture but the capturing piece itself is exploded.'(Emphasis added.) This suggests to me that when you capture a Mine in space, it isn't 'live' and the capturing piece does not explode. But that's just a guess.
Contest to design a chess variant on 44 squares. Our annual N-squares chess variant design competition.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Yes, not all competing entries have been posted yet.
Summoner's Chess. Pieces are created and improved through the use of cards. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Interesting. I'm tempted to use this to get something that's been floating in <I>my</I> mind for years: Chess on Any (Large Enough) Number of Squares.<p>
Pick a number of squares N and an initial length l ? N. Place the two kings at opposite ends of a line of l square tiles. Divide the remaining squares equally, with Black getting the extra square if N-l is odd. Add to each turn a 'Land Build' phase in which a player may place a square in an empty spot (horizontally or vertically) next to an already-placed square.
Contest to design a chess variant on 44 squares. Our annual N-squares chess variant design competition.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hans,
<p>'standard three-player chess'? Which variant is that?
Two Pipe Chess. Setup on 41-squares board looks like two tobacco pipes. (9x5, Cells: 41) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]If a White pawn ends up at a4, then it's stuck there.
Contest to design a chess variant on 44 squares. Our annual N-squares chess variant design competition.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hans,
<p>What's happened to my entry: Los Alamos Extinction Chess With Bunkers?
Canyon Chess. Small variant with Marshalls and Archbishops and some new rules. (8x8, Cells: 44) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Is Canyon Chess an entry in the 44-squares contest?
Horus. Game with Royal Falcons where all pieces start off board and most captures return pieces to owner's hand. (7x7, Cells: 44) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hmmmm... let's get the other Egyptian gods taken care of before someone actually does trademark them.<p>
For example, Ra (Ra Ra) Chess: Any non-pawn adjacent to a friendly pawn can move as an Amazon. Let these Amazon-Relay Pawns be called Cheerleaders. :-)
Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Matthew,<p>Let me be the first to tell you where to go: <a href='http://play.chessvariants.com'>play.chessvariants.com</a>
Suppose someone promotes a pawn to a rook. The 'redundant' rule prevents the player from castling with the new rook.
Perpetual check. Explanation of perpetual check with an animated diagram.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]With some exceptions, the answer is to start over with the pieces in their correct starting positions. (See Article 7.1(a) of the Laws of Chess at <a href='http://fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=EE101'>http://fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=EE101</a>.)
Los Alamos Extinction Chess With Bunkers. On 6 by 6 board with two additional 2 by 2 bunkers, and extension chess rules. (2x(6x6), Cells: 44) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]You might find the following idea amusing, especially if you've been affected by the Atkins low-carbohydrate diet fad in the US. It came to me shortly after the contest entry deadline:<p>
<h6>Los Alamos Chess in a Low-Carb Sandwich</h6>
The board is a 6x6 with a 2x2 placed above and below the central four squares. Rules are the same as Los Alamos, except that non-pawn pieces may move as their 3-d Raumschach counterparts (except, no castling).
Ok, here's my entry.<p>
<h4>Chess-Hex</h4>
The board is a standard 11x11 Hex board. Blue and Red each have a set of pieces from Glinski's Hexagonal Chess. Play is like Hex, except
<ol><li>Players place pieces instead of plain stones (Note: Pieces don't move once placed.)</li>
<li>two friendly pieces are connected if one(pictorially) guards the other and is within three hexes</li>
<li>if two pieces are adjacent, they are connected</li>
<li>a piece is connected to an edge if adjacent to it</li>
<li>if the players run out of pieces without either winning, the game is a draw</li></ol>
Here's looking forward to something better!<br>
Doug Chatham
Ok, let's try something different:
<h3>Entry 3: Splendid Isolation Chess, or</h3>
<h4>Separate the Kids!</h4>
Setup like ordinary chess. Pieces move as in ordinary chess, except pawns can move backward and there is no capturing, check, checkmate, or promotion. A player wins if and only if all of his pieces are separated from each other i.e. if none of the player's men is adjacent to any of the player's other men.<p>
Here's a non-contest version for those who like capturing and promotion:<br>
Setup like Chess. Pieces move as in Chess, except (1) the king isn't royal and can be captured like other pieces and (2) capturing is compulsory as in Losing Chess. A player wins if and only if his pieces are isolated. Note that a bare king is a win in this variant.
Oh, there are enough squares to separate 16 pieces. For instance, if we can get one player's pieces onto a1 c1 e1 g1 b3 d3 f3 h3 a5 c5 e5 g5 b7 d7 f7 h7, then they'll be separated.<p>
However, 8x8 doesn't seem like enough room for a <b>playable</b> game of SIC. Allowing diagonal adjacency would help a little, and so would extra ranks and/or fewer pieces.<p>
If anyone tries my SIC ideas out, let us know how it goes.
Roberto,<br>
Castlingmost Chess (or OOmost Chess) by Ralph Betza <i>almost</i> qualifies for your contest, except that he keeps pawn promotion. Has anyone playtested that game yet?<p>
Doug
Roberto,<p>
You forgot to limit us to two entries, so here's my third, which is Tony Paletta's Zoo Chess with a few changes:
<h3>Tag Chess</h3>
Setup like FIDE. No pawn promotion, no capturing. Instead of capturing, a player marks or 'tags' an enemy piece within range of one of his pieces. A tag counts as a move; the player cannot move a piece and tag in the same move, nor may the player tag more than one piece in the same move. Tagging has no effect on the enemy piece. The goal is to tag one member of each of the opponent's species,before the opponent does it to your species (so the King, the Queen, one Pawn, one Rook, one Knight, one Bishop). If you want to have checkmate in the game, say that the King can only be tagged if checkmated.
<p>Cheers!
About fixing Tag Chess:<p>
In Zoo Chess, the player is only required to capture members of 4 of the 6 species to win. Perhaps if tagging 3 or 4 species was a win in Tag chess, 'cities' wouldn't be a problem.
Stratomic. Decimal variant with a nuclear missile piece. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]N and M are too easily confused. How about A (for A-bomb) or I (for ICBM)?
<p> Or we could just switch to using French abbreviations; then the problem goes away...
Contest to design a chess variant on 44 squares. Our annual N-squares chess variant design competition.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]We are now part of the .org hierarchy. Resistance is futile!
:-)
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Seriously, I'm also curious about what prompted the move.
From Ungulates Outwards. A Systematic Set of Names for the Simplest Oblique Pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]When you combine a Queen with a Knight you get an Amazon. What do you get when you combine a Queen with one of the other ungulates in your list?
Recognized Chess Variants. Index page listing the variants we feel are most significant. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Checkismate. Put the King in check to win. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Also see <a href='http://www.chessvariants.org/winning.dir/singleck.html'>http://www.chessvariants.org/winning.dir/singleck.html</a> for other check-is-mate variants.
Another question, based on Peter Aronson's observation,'Apparently Three-Check Chess works better. ' : Has anyone tried Infinite Check Chess?
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