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Jörg Knappen wrote on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:25 AM UTC:
I am looking for a certain circular chess variant I have seen in the 1980s.
It was published in a physics students' journal (if I remember correctly
from Bochum) in germany. The board consisted of a full circular disk. The
'squares' in the innermost disk were triangular sectors. It used standard
chess pieces.

The most striking feature I still remember is that the bishop changes the
square colour while crossing the center. Does anyone know this variant?

Jörg Knappen wrote on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 02:00 PM UTC:
Unfortunately, no one seems to know the circular chess variant I have
sketched in the previous message of this thread. The board was similar to
this one:

http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSknightsofthero

and the rules for going through the center were similar like in this
variant

http://www.chessvariants.org/shape.dir/globe.html

Jörg Knappen wrote on Fri, Aug 6, 2021 08:43 PM UTC:

I think I finally found it, it must be Nadvorney's Spherical Chess as described here

https://www.chessvariants.com/boardrules.dir/spherical.html


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