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Minishogi Gold and Silver / 5五将棋 金銀. Super-aggressive version of Minishogi on a 5x5 board. (5x5, Cells: 25) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Вадря Покштя wrote on Sat, Aug 17, 2024 08:13 PM UTC:

My submission is ready for publication.


Sphinx Chess. Likely the first 4D chess variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝Ben Reiniger wrote on Sun, Aug 18, 2024 12:48 AM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from Sat Aug 17 06:00 AM:

Your interactive diagram has given the pieces too much power: a piece never changes both its board and its relative position. (I've described this before as "2+2 dimensions" as opposed to a fully symmetric 4 dimensions.)


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HaruN Y wrote on Sun, Aug 18, 2024 10:35 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

Simi Grove by Stuart Spence, AKA Zulban_tyr

files=5 ranks=7 promoZone=1 promoChoice=Q graphicsDir=/cgi-bin/fen2.php?s=50&w=00bfff&b=fffb00&p= squareSize=50 graphicsType= symmetry=none royal=K shuffle=NBRQKM borders=0 firstRank=1 lightShade=#7f00ff coordColor=#a00000 darkShade=#00a000 rimColor=#0000a0 pawn:P:ifmnDfmWfceF:pawn:a2,b2,c2,d2,e2 knight:N:N:knight:b1 bishop:B:B:bishop:e1 rook:R:R:rook:a1 queen:Q:Q:queen:d1 archbishop:A:BN:cardinal: modern elephant:M:FA:elephantferz:,,a6,b6,d6,e6,a7,b7,d7,e7 morph=A Monkey king:K:N:monkey--king:,,c7 king:K:KilO2:king:c1

But with shuffle.


Modern Republican Chess. Members-Only Game with side(s) whose pieces have diagonal counterpart. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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The Amazon Army. One player has an Amazon (a queen with knights move) and handicapped rooks.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
HaruN Y wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2024 12:38 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Berolina Chess. Different moving pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
HaruN Y wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2024 01:07 AM UTC in reply to from Sat Jul 3 2004 12:13 AM:

Normal Pawns since they can fork.


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HaruN Y wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2024 01:09 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

Zedmied by catsrule2675, AKA catsrule the silly goof

files=7 ranks=7 promoZone=1 promoChoice= graphicsDir=/cgi-bin/fen2.php?s=50&t=&w=dd0b8a&b=45fab6&p= squareSize=50 graphicsType= shuffle=RK royal=K symmetry=none borders=0 firstRank=1 darkShade=#6baf54 lightShade=#a8b0dd coordColor=#cdaae5 rimColor=#100e4d soldier:P:ifmnDfWfceF:pawn--chinesepawn:a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2,g2,,a6,b6,c6,d6,e6,f6,g6 knight:N:N:knight:b1,f1,,b7,f7 rook:R:R:rook:c1,e1,,c7,e7 dragon horse:H:BW:promotedbishop:a1,g1,,a7,g7 king:K:K:king:d1,,d7

It's been a while since I made an Interactive Diagram due to a request.


Sloppy Slippers. An army consisting of slip-pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Lev Grigoriev wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2024 10:36 AM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from Sun Jun 30 02:26 AM:Good ★★★★

Cool, thanks;) noting that Queen and Oracle are pretty equal.


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Lev Grigoriev wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2024 10:38 AM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from 01:09 AM:Good ★★★★

Decent choice of pieces.


Restrictima. Members-Only Half immobilizers. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Armies of Faith 2: Later Antiquity. The second in a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (5x(10x10), Cells: 245) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Lev Grigoriev wrote on Wed, Aug 21, 2024 02:39 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Hardly understandable but so interesting.


Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Lev Grigoriev wrote on Wed, Aug 21, 2024 07:50 PM UTC:

Rational suggestion: what if external links will use the same font as the main text (Literata) but still be underlined twice as now? This increases text’s readability in some cases.


Ambitious Amphibians. Private Another abnormal side for Chess with Different Armies. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Hexagonal Arimaa. Hexagonal Arimaa - Based on McCooey's Hexagonal Chess.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Lily Dawn wrote on Thu, Aug 22, 2024 07:56 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from Sat Aug 10 04:47 PM:

i suppose it is to mimic the fact that hexagonal chess variants tend to have three bishops? i agree that it seems a strange decision, though.


Spider-Chess. Beware of spiders. (25x19, Cells: 369) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🔔Notification on Thu, Aug 22, 2024 05:36 PM UTC:

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CC Top. Column Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
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Snappy Chess. A nimble affair thanks to morphing. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bn Em wrote on Thu, Aug 22, 2024 05:45 PM UTC:

It's still completely obscure to me what exactly is meant by “according to the default”. I have the impression of a dictionary translation from German with an unfortunate bad guess…


VaoQi. XiangQi with Vaos. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bn Em wrote on Thu, Aug 22, 2024 06:02 PM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from Sat Aug 17 07:17 AM:

Are we to guess which one isn't? ;‌)


Hexagonal chess. Chess on a board, made out of hexes. Variant of Dave McCooey. (Cells: 91) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
HaruN Y wrote on Thu, Aug 22, 2024 07:39 PM UTC:
files=11 ranks=11 promoZone=1 promoChoice=NBRQ graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/magnetic/ squareSize=50 graphicsType=gif symmetry=none royal=K borders=0 firstRank=1 rimColor=#a97d64 holeColor=#a97d64 oddShade=#494697 coordColor=#0eaeae lightShade=#6b6b6b darkShade=#31302b whitePrefix=W blackPrefix=B shuffle=NRQK hole::::g1,h1,i1,h2,i2,j2,i3,j3,k3,j4,k4,k5,a7,a8,b8,a9,b9,c9,b10,c10,d10,c11,d11,e11 white hexarect pawn:↑:frmFrffrceNifrnmA:Pawn:d1,d2,d3,a4,b4,c4,d4 morph=*/..........*/"/"/"/" black hexarect pawn:↓:frmFrffrceNifrnmA:Pawn:,,h8,i8,j8,k8,h9,h10,h11 morph=*/*........../"/"/"/" hexarect knight:N:lfrbbrflNrflbfrblCrflbfrblZ:Knight:c2,b3,,j9,i10 hexarect bishop:B:flbrBrflbfrblNN:Bishop:a1,b2,c3,,i9,j10,k11 hexarect rook:R:RfrblB:Rook:c1,a3,,k9,i11 hexarect queen:Q:QrflbfrblNN:Queen:a2,,j11 hexarect king:K:KrflbfrblN:King:b1,,k10

But with shuffle.


VaoQi. XiangQi with Vaos. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝HaruN Y wrote on Thu, Aug 22, 2024 07:59 PM UTC in reply to Bn Em from 06:02 PM:

I posted that when my Restrictima was still WIP (but not private).

I think they're all ready now.


Hexagonal Arimaa. Hexagonal Arimaa - Based on McCooey's Hexagonal Chess.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Aug 23, 2024 06:52 PM UTC in reply to Lily Dawn from Thu Aug 22 07:56 AM:

Ok, it does make sense if it's meant to be playable using a McCooey's Hexagonal Chess set. But the point of Arimaa using standard chess equipment is that everyone already has it.


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HaruN Y wrote on Sat, Aug 24, 2024 08:16 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

Wukong by Stuart Spence, AKA Zulban_tyr

files=6 ranks=8 promoZone=1 promoChoice=Q graphicsDir=/cgi-bin/fen2.php?s=50&b=5984bd&p= squareSize=50 graphicsType= symmetry=none royal=K borders=0 firstRank=1 darkShade=#59d739 rimColor=#300a0a coordColor=#c29c48 lightShade=#aa1c1c shuffle=RQKAGT knight:N:N:knight:b1,e1,a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2 rook:R:R:rook:a1,f1 queen:Q:Q:queen:d1 archbishop:A:BN:cardinal:,,b8,e8 modern elephant:M:FA:elephantferz:,,a7,b7,c7,d7,e7,f7 morph=T Gorilla:G:fsR:/membergraphics/MSiconclearinghouse/%gorillac.png:,,a8,f8 Monkey king:K:N:monkey--king:,,d8 Banana:T:T:moon:,,c8 king:K:KisO2:king:c1

But with shuffle.


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