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Kung Fu Chess. On a 14x10 board, the pieces in this variant are based on Kung Fu martial arts styles of combat. (14x10, Cells: 140) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

JCAB wrote on Wed, Oct 16, 2002 10:25 PM UTC:

There is another 'Kung-Fu' chess that is quite interesting in my opinion. It's a variant of chess, with very few modifications to the rules, which can only be played on a computer.<p> Check:<p> <a href=http://www.kungfuchess.com>http://www.kungfuchess.com</a><p> Salutaciones,<br> JCAB

restall15 wrote on Fri, Mar 21, 2003 07:13 PM UTC:

KungfuChess.com has moved to www.shizmoo.com


I suggest you check it out and rethink the name of yours :D

Timothy Bostick wrote on Sat, Mar 13, 2004 06:51 PM UTC:

I don't know whether my Kung Fu Chess is older than the simultaneous
movement Kung Fu Chess game or not, but I could accept renaming my
variant
'Shaolin Chess.'

Tim Bostick

David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Sep 5, 2004 02:19 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

'Three pieces can checkmate the Shaolin Master by themselves: the Praying Mantis, Ng Mui, and the promoted Bruce Lee.' Of course, there are many combinations of Shaolin Master and a single piece which can force mate against a lone Shaolin Master. The (unpromoted) Bruce Lee will do the job, as it is identical to the centuries-old Griffon (see the Griffon entry in the Piececlopedia). The companion piece, Wing Chun, does not occur in any chess variant that I know of. Eric Greenwood's 'Duke' is the only piece that even comes close.

David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 03:42 AM UTC:

I finally remembered some old material related to the Bruce Lee and Wing Chun pieces. Mark Hedden's Io Chess (1999) contains the Griffin and its promoted form - the Hippogriff. He also has the Spider (the diagonal equivalent of the Griffin) and its promoted form - the Tarantula. See the Piececlopedia article on the 'Duke' for more background material.

George Duke wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 01:58 AM UTC:

'JKL,LargeCV': Bostick's Insect Chess is recommended and was conscientiously reviewed here, no small task for many of these. This one is NR because of the format's difficulty even finding out what the pieces are. Yet putative 'Zillions of Games' values are all over the place: Dragon 6.75, which is the Marshall; Monkey 2.25, which is the Knight... Stop there, because guaranteed that that differential(6.75 minus 2.25) is off by at least 1.5 pts. when P(1.0). Wing Chun(10.25), diagonal equivalent of Gryphon, is called Wasp in the superior Insect Chess. RNBKQP are all in there, Disciple being the ordinary Pawn. Ng Mui (9.5 pts.) is conventional Amazon. Insect has better theme and more coherence.

Anonymous wrote on Fri, Apr 23, 2010 07:59 AM UTC:

I think that most of old Shogi variants have alike idea: pieces, wich reprecents how different animals moves.

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Sat, Jan 21, 2012 08:15 PM UTC:

One idea I have, is making a Disciple can only promote to pieces that you have lost and only one of: Monkey, Panther, Crab, Snake, Tiger, Crane, Dragon, Mantis.

I also have idea of single-letters notations for pieces:

I = Disciple
N = Monkey
P = Panther
R = Crab
S = Snake
T = Tiger
C = Crane
D = Dragon
M = Mantis
Q = Ng Mui
X = Wing Chun
L = Bruce Lee
Z = Super Wing Chun
F = Super Bruce Lee
K = Shaolin Master

And then make up a Chinese notation of pieces as well, based on the Chinese kung fu. So that you can even use a flat Chinese pieces but with marks of the name of these pieces in Chinese instead. (I know the game is not Chinese but I still prefer flat pieces for chess variants in general)

George Duke wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2016 05:47 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

Currently of Florea's new CV Apothecary are the classic Gryphon of Grande Acedrex and complementary Aanca. Here are another pair of them from 2001 Bostick's Kung Fu Chess: Wing Chun moving like Aanca and Bruce Lee moving like Gryphon.

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