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Taijitu Qi. Xiang Qi pieces are joined by (but not combined with) their duals. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Shouldn't you be able to edit your own page?
Notchess. A family of games with Chess and Chess-Variant pieces but no King. () [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Capped Pawns (Bemützte Bauern). Pawns have a double step once in their career.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This is the 111th comment in this comments section!
I've never posted my own chess variant in this comments section before this even though this is the comments section of my own profile so I felt like sharing this abomination I created in 2021. YesInteractive diagram: pieces movable, right-click resets!
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Why did I create this?
Antelope. Makes (3,4)-jump.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This one is nice to my opinion. It really looks like a chess pieces.
That was in reference to this image:
I replaced it with a new image today, which I think looks better and is less cluttered with surrounding pieces.
Rose Chess XII. 
With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This is the only ID where the ID seems to undervalue Rose. Other IDs assign Rose at higher values.
Berolina Grid Chess. Combination of Berolina Chess and Grid Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Interactive diagram: pieces movable, right-click resets!
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Dabbabah. Historical piece leaping two squares horizontally or vertically.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Since I changed the AI image for this piece, here is the old one for comparison:
Rose Chess XII. With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Nov 22, 2024 06:28 PM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from 05:30 AM:This is the only ID where the ID seems to undervalue Rose. Other IDs assign Rose at higher values.
This is probably because it is not really a Rose (which can make up to 7 Knight jumps), but a Half-Rose, which can only do up to 4. I suppose the other Diagrams you refer to use genuine Roses.
Featured Chess Variants. Chess Variants Featured in our Page Headers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Edit: I see now that it is already nominated as "Knight-Relay Chess", so this becomes a second to that.
Original nomination, gives the name where the variant can be found here:
Here's another nomination for a featured CV:
N-Relay Chess
for popularising the idea of additional moves and captures by Relay.
Tags Listing. A listing of the tags used on our pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Is it possible to rename the tag "Piece:Berolina Pawn" to "Piece:Pawn:Berolina"? I have already added some children to Piece:Pawn and it would fit perfectly there, IMO.
Favorite Games. Chess variants favorited by our members.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]There is something wrong with the rating of Fischer Random Chess: In this list it is the favorite of 12, but on its page I count only 11 having it as a favorite.
It has also an extraordinary high score even it it was favorited by 12.
Rose Chess XII. With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This is a late reply ... the bent riders that are not bent are in fact long known, problemists call them slip pieces (slip-R, slip-B, and slip-Q). The slip-R is also known under the name Panda and plays with this name in the S(w)eeping Switchers army for CwDA (2002).
Querquisite Chess. Features the whimsical, irregular Querquisites,. (8x10, Cells: 72) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Another late reply: Yes, before having an account here I signed by comments with "--JKn". Afaik, no one else did.
Rose Chess XII. With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]4-Knight-Jumps Rose shouldn't be half a ♟️ weaker than 6-Knight-Jumps Rose. They should be as close as B5 is to B.
Beautiful Beasts. A new team for Chess with Different Armies based on the Roc.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]No. The move zero rule is only to prevent an immediate tactical threat, but not a measure to correct the strength of an army. The additional tempi gained by the move zero rule are worth about one third of a pawn.
Great that you rediscovered the 135-degree-rose. I did not name it back in 2002 but I don't like the name "Worsen" – to me it only sounds like a verb with the meaning "to make worse; to become worse".
I suggest "Rose of Jericho" for this piece. The move pattern reminds me to the ball shape of that plant in dried up state.
Nachtmahr. Game with seven different kinds of Nightriders. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]HaruN Y rediscovered the 135-degree-rose recently and named it "Worsen"
https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?id=56364
I don't like this name, I suggest "Rose of Jericho" instead.
Rose Chess XII. With Nightriders, (Half-)Roses, Spotted Gryphons and War Machines. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Charles Gilman explored those pieces and assigned some more names in the game "Commedia dell'Arte Chess"
10-directional Chess. 10-directional pieces: an augmented Knight and a restricted Chancellor. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I just noticed that piece I name Fischer here was used by Jason D. Wittman, 2000, Mad Chess. It is called Unicorn there.
Mad Chess. Chess variant with unequal armies on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I just discovered that this game contains the Unicorn, a piece that I later used as Fischer in 10-directional Chess. I have added a credit note in the comment of this game.
Crab. Jumps as knight but only `narrow forwards' or `wide backwards'.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Shuffle Mimpiting by me
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Crabified Nachtmahr.
Mad Chess. Chess variant with unequal armies on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I agree with the comments cited in the review: The Stone army (here black) is weaker than the Steel army (here white). I think that the imbalance can be corrected by giving the MAD INFANTRYMAN the possibility to move without capture as a Cylindrical Bishop and making the FOOL also to move and capture as a Cylindrical Bishop. Cylindrical Bishops are equal in value with Rooks according to experienced players of Cylindrical Chess.
P.S. I came back here to find out about the "Stone King" in Derzhanski's list of Chess pieces. I clearly see that the Black King moves as described, but the term "Stone" does not appear here. It is present in the PBM preset and also in one comment on the contest page where also the SteelQueen is mentioned.
Nachtmahr. Game with seven different kinds of Nightriders. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I intentionally gave it a name that sounds like a verb here for a pun.
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Just for the curious: I accidentally found the original proposal of the Sweeping Switchers here:
https://www.chessvariants.com/ratings/-piececlopedia.dir-ideal-and-practical-values-4.html
It got refined with the help of the editors here.