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Nine-Queen Chess. Queens are placed instead of Pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, Feb 3, 2005 08:40 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
There are some other things to which you could add references here. One is the film Nine Queens, particularly as film-themed variants seem to be coming into fashion again. The other is a variant, whose name escapes me, in which Queens replace the Rooks, Bishops, and Knights. Perhaps someone who can remember the name could post a comment giving it.

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Feb 7, 2005 08:42 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
There are some other things to which you could add cross-references here.
One is the film Nine Queens, as a sizeable number of variants with film
connections (though usually more deliberate than this) is building up.
The
other is the variant Power Chess, alas only shown as an implementation
(/play/erf/PowerChs.html), in which Queens
replace
the Rooks, Bishops, and Knights.

Ursel wrote on Tue, Oct 31, 2006 03:30 AM UTC:Poor ★

This variant is poor, because white is very likely to win.

After 1. Qaxf7+ Qxf7 2. Qxd7+ Bxd7 3. Rxa7 white is up the exchange rook for queen.


Jeremy Good wrote on Tue, Oct 31, 2006 10:22 AM UTC:
That's an interesting combination; maybe you're right. Please explain why the 2. Qxd7 is necessary so I more fully understand.

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