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Normal Pawns since they can fork.

Zedmied by catsrule2675, AKA catsrule the silly goof

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

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

Decent choice of pieces.

Hardly understandable but so interesting.

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.

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.

The editor Bn Em has revised this page.

The editor Bn Em has revised this page.

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…

Are we to guess which one isn't? ;‌)

But with shuffle.

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

I think they're all ready now.

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.

Wukong by Stuart Spence, AKA Zulban_tyr

But with shuffle.

Hi, I found your very nice svg versions of piece variants for a lot of pieces here on chessvariants.com - I'm referring to http://winboard.nl/alpha/

I have played on Yucata.de for some time, and they recently released Grand Chess with a lot of pieces (81 extra) which originated from chessvariants.com. Then I had the idea to do a print-and-play for myself with the same graphics as on Yucata.

Unfortunately their piece images were very small gifs, so that's why I was happy to find your svg files. Anyway, I have started to do an AI file using the same color for the black pieces as on Yucata, mostly I can use your svg files and some extra work is needed.

I just wanted to thank you for making your work downloadable, and if you have any use of the extra work I did just tell me. I might want to do an online version on futureskill.com at some point, please tell me if this is ok for you.

/Henrik

If you have Telegram, I invite you to my channel themed on chess variants: https://t.me/DeepVariantExplorers

Testing an interactive diagram (huge thanks to HaruN Y for doing most of the work on a Sphinx Chess diagram):

The first problem to solve is that the square coloring doesn't alternate properly. If there's a way to set colors more manually, I'll do that. I think the coloring is important to see the bishop bindings and rook's alternation, so I'm not willing to just leave it as is. I can't put just one hole between little boards, or the knights will be afforded an incorrect move. I could put three holes between little boards, but that'll have quite a bit too much empty space (can you thin specific ranks+columns?).

Other known issues: Ideally I could override the coordinates, but if not it'll be fine, I just won't use it as the main setup diagram. The knight is still a Centauri, none of the pieces have their triagonal or quadragonal components yet, and obviously the layout isn't set yet; I expect I can fix those once the layout is settled.

If I can fix up those issues (and any others that arise), I'll include it on the page, along with a separate game (maybe this should be a separate page) that features the raw orthogonal/diagonal/triagonal/quadragonal sliders, just to help demonstrate.

Yours still seems to overprescribe movements (but this has been wonderful as a start to more-symmetric 4d games like my own TessChess, for which I'm dabbling with expanding your diagram here). Here's my attempt. Let me know if you have questions about the rules, or if I seem to have Betza'ed incorrectly (likely).

The author, Gerd Degens, has updated this page.

Oh, I see.

I thought there would be no AYY because I thought "they change either the letter or number (but not both)" meant no moving diagonally between the boards & somehow I missed that moving diagonally doesn't change the number.