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Jupiter. Huge chess variant on 16 by 16 board. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
ChrisWitham wrote on Mon, May 6, 2002 12:04 AM UTC:
Anyone know how to contact Adrian King to find out if he ever made a more
polished version of the rules?

David Howe wrote on Mon, May 6, 2002 01:29 PM UTC:
Adrian should be getting email whenever a comment is made on one of his pages. I can also forward email to Adrian if anyone wishes to contact him.

smakarov wrote on Wed, Oct 16, 2002 11:08 PM UTC:Poor ★
Must be a fun game... once you've memorized all the pieces.

http://zzo38computer wrote on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 03:57 AM UTC:
It ses:
WWW page created: 1999. Transferred to the chessvariants.com on 12 Oct
2001. 
Last modified on: October 12, 2001. 
It also ses that it wil be fixed soon, but still its not fixed! Wen will
it be fixed?
Thay forgot sum stuf about the peces, and thay hav to put it in ther soon,
becuse it has to be finsished so that sumbudy can play the game.

Breadman wrote on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 04:24 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
Why might the Great Dragon be less powerful than the Water Buffalo?

L. Lynn Smith wrote on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 07:02 AM UTC:
Adrian states that a ZRF was under production before the summer of 1999. 
Does anyone know the status of this implementation?

John Lawson wrote on Mon, Dec 22, 2003 04:52 AM UTC:
breadman wrote:
'Why might the Great Dragon be less powerful than the Water Buffalo?'

They both have the same Rook components. However, the Water Buffalo can
also move as a Bishop, but the Great Dragon's Bishop move is restricted
to three squares.

Breadman wrote on Mon, May 24, 2004 10:26 PM UTC:
Right; I question the names, not the moves: 'Great Dragon' sounds like something that could have a water buffalo for breakfast.

JCRuhf wrote on Tue, Mar 29, 2005 10:57 PM UTC:
Adrian, what is the status of your ZRF for this game?

Adrian King wrote on Tue, May 10, 2005 04:33 AM UTC:
I'm afraid I haven't looked at this page in years, and I'm not sure what I've done with the ZRF I'd started working on. Perhaps a project for someone else, or for when I retire...

Chris Witham wrote on Tue, Jul 5, 2005 03:51 PM UTC:
Did you ever finish the description of the game, or the images of the pieces not included on this page?

Daniel Roth wrote on Tue, Jul 5, 2005 05:36 PM UTC:
There are still several pieces missing their moving/taking rules.
Will this be fixed soon?

Andy Maxson wrote on Sun, Jan 28, 2007 02:26 AM UTC:Average ★★★
how does the rankrider and go along move forward, or promote?

Andy Maxson wrote on Mon, Jan 29, 2007 10:15 PM UTC:Average ★★★
the hawklet is too powerful according to your criteria to be a starting piece

George Duke wrote on Tue, May 20, 2008 06:25 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
In follow-up to Typhoon, Adrian King adds in year 2001 Dervish (A,D), Go Away (W,F + more), Blue Gecko (W,F + more differently), Drunk Elephant (F,A capture only,N,W move only). Also Blind Tiger (F,W move only,N capture only,D), Kamikaze (W,D,A), to name a few.

danielmacduff wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2013 02:31 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Overly large, not every piece described, some incongruencies (ie. West and East General, also not represented.)

8/13/13: Wow.  Just wow.  That was harsh.  Why not pursue massive sizes of game?  But, still, you need to fix the lack of pieces!

💡📝Adrian King wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2013 06:27 AM UTC:
I can't find any reference to the East and West General, either. I think it's because I never put them in this game. But surely there's room for them in Jupiter's successor...

Some of the ambiguities in the rules are clarified (I hope) in the revision at http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSjupiter%28revise.

George Duke wrote on Tue, Apr 24, 2018 03:10 PM UTC:

Typhoon is FA + R3, tri-compound.  Emperor of E. has all three of Strong's and Joyce's NWH plus FDATZC, 9-compound reaching everything within the 7x7.


Anthony Viens wrote on Tue, Aug 21, 2018 07:00 AM UTC:

This, sir, is crazy insane!!!

Very cool.  Just WOW.  New bucket list item: play full game of Jupiter with a physical copy.....


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