1. No, promoted elephant and knight cannot promote further. 
2. I think knight and camel have same value or the camel is stronger. The reason for knights promoting to camels is their movement, knights are (2,1) jumpers and camels (3,1) jumpers. 
3. I must have been sleeping when I wrote this. I'll upload the page as soon as possible. En passant is NOT in this game. :/ 
4. As in shogi, you can't mate with a dropped pawn. I'll include this when I upload the page. Stalemate is draw, as in FIDE chess. 
 
Thank you for the comment! 
Hope you'll enjoy playin'!

💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 12:38 PM UTC:

'Why does the Queen promote to a less powerful piece? While the piece that is normally called an Amazon (Queen+Knight) is more powerful than a Queen, the piece you call an Amazon in this game (Rook+Knight) is not.' 
 
Amazon is (queen+knight), I just screwed up a little. Thanks for the comment anyway!

War of the Worlds. Chess army from planet Earth against the Martian forces of Jetan. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 11:21 PM UTC:

how do pieces move?

Wildebeest Chess. Variant on an 10 by 11 board with extra jumping pieces. (11x10, Cells: 110) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sat, Jun 26, 2010 06:11 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Shogchess. Missing description (9x11, Cells: 99) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sat, Jun 26, 2010 06:15 PM UTC:

Thanks, I'm new to these pages so I don't know how to do things like this

Taikyoku Shogi. Extremely large shogi variant. (36x36, Cells: 1296) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 07:59 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

According to http://taikyokushogi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/taikyoku.swf, this mark -|-|-|-> means 'may jump over three pieces on its way'. In this link,  get the piece that starts at 20 32 out on the board and look at the forward-diagonal moves: it may move four spaces into the opponents start row, jumping over three pieces- or one, or two, jumping over one, or three, jumping over two.

Ice Hockey Chess. Chess variant based upon rules of (Ice) Hockey. (8x10, Cells: 68) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Thu, Jul 1, 2010 05:21 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

looks really fun!

Conveyor Chess. Large variant with conveyor belt on middle of board. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Thu, Jul 1, 2010 07:04 PM UTC:BelowAverage ★★

It is interesting but not good enough. You should work on it a little more.

Augmented Knights. Knights receive different additional movement possibilities. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jul 7, 2010 04:39 PM UTC:

According to http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gpjnow/VC-GM.htm,
a (0,3) leaper
is called a threeleaper.

link is broken

Alfaerie Variant Chess Graphics. Set of chess variant graphics based on Eric Bentzen's Chess Alpha font.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jul 7, 2010 05:49 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

love this set!

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jul 7, 2010 05:56 PM UTC:

>>I'm curious: what is the nightknight?<< Don't you mean nightrider? In that case, a nightrider is a piece that moves as a knight and can repeat the previous move as long as every passed-by squere is empty. (ex.: a nightrider on b1 could move to c3 and then continue to d5 (if c3 was empty) and then to e7 (if d5 was empty). If it captures a piece, it must stop.

Shogchess. Missing description (9x11, Cells: 99) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:14 PM UTC:

Thanks for that, David

Óskar's 3dchess. Missing description (5x(8x8), Cells: 320) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:25 PM UTC:

David,
I agree. I'm working on a better solution, this is only the first try. I find most 3d chess variants too complicated, I simply was trying to make gameplay easier. I am (like I said before) working on - my new version (not posted yet) has got 48 pieces, that is 15% (still too low) and it has got the mace, the mace-bishop, mace-rook and the rook-bishop.

💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 05:36 PM UTC:

David,
I do own the zillions demo but that's it. And I don't know where to download and how much to spend on the full version. If I had got some more chess-sets I would propably test-play this game. (I've got two out of five...) I'm thinking about your advice about the extra leapers, but after checking out the 3-dimensional eight level chess, 3d8l (link: http://www.hixoxih.com/games/chess/3D8L.htm ) ,which has got four kinds of leapers I did not want to 'steal' these pieces... If you've got any more ideas, please contact me at: [email protected] ,or just leave a comment as always......

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