Play

Invitations to Play

Computer Programs

Zillions of Games

Games

Game Courier's Top 50

Recognized Variants

The Rules of Chess

Playable with a Chess set

Capturing in a Different Way

Different Opening Setups

Different Board Rules

Differently Moving Pieces

Moving Opponent's Pieces

Multi-Move Variants

Winning in a Different Way

Modest Variants

Historic Antecedents

Oriental Variants

Different Boards

Three-Dimensional

Commercial Games

Other Variants

Chess with Cards

Chess with Dice

Incomplete Information

Miscellaneous Other

Themed Variants

Random Game Page

Explore

Google Custom Search

Pages Like This

Alphabetical Index

Related

Rules of Unicorn Great Chess

Categories

Web

Chess Variants on Facebook

Chessvariants Subreddit

Chess Variants Wiki

Tools

Diagram Designer

Betza notation (extended)

Checkmating Applet

A Wizard for GAME-Code Generation

Interactive Diagrams

Diagram Editor with Scalable Graphics

Play-test applet for chess variants

Help

What is a Chess Variant?

The History of Chess Variants

Where can I play Chess Variants?

Why should I play Chess Variants?

Which are the best Chess Variants?

How do I design or post a game?

How You Can Help

HTML Dos and Don'ts

Check out Makruk (Thai Chess), our featured variant for March, 2025.

Unicorn Great Chess Preset for Game Courier

Click here to play Unicorn Great Chess

WWW Page Created: 23 January 2002.

Categories and Details

Game Courier Logs

Game Courier Logs for Games of Unicorn Great Chess

Click on the above link to view logs of Unicorn Great Chess played on Game Courier.

Credits

Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: David Paulowich.

Comments

Unicorn Great Chess. Enjoyable game: Great Chess pawn structure encloses two half-ducks - "lions" - with exciting bishop-nightrider - "unicorn.".

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Mar 10, 2019 12:00 PM EDT:

It will work correctly now. The coordinates stored for checking legal castling moves on for Black were on rank 8 instead of rank 10.

Kevin Pacey wrote on Sun, Mar 10, 2019 12:34 AM EST:

I tried again, and said 'yes' to making a move it had marked as illegal (my castling). After that, I was allowed to castle. So, apparently no fix to the preset is absolutely necessary.

Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Mar 9, 2019 01:25 AM EST:

In my 2019 GC tournament game, the preset is not allowing me to legally castle by moving my (Black) king two squares sideways to my right on the first rank. Hopefully this can be quickly fixed:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Unicorn%2520Great%2520Chess&log=dax00-panther-2019-61-902&userid=panther

List all comments and ratings for this item.

Add a comment or rating for this item.

The Chess Variant Pages is an amateur, hobbyist website that has been run by volunteers since it was founded in 1995. It focuses on documenting games based on, related to, or similar enough to Chess and on letting you play many of them.

Who What When Where Why Which How

Google Custom Search
Query Database
What's New
Alphabetical Index
Topic Index
Tags
Comments

Privacy

Operating expenses are covered through advertising and donations. Help out by making a PayPal donation or by shopping with these affiliate links:

House of Staunton
US Chess Sales
Wholesale Chess
Amazon.com
ebay.com

https://www.chessvariants.org/play/unicorn_great_chess.html
First Created: Monday, January 1st, 2001
Last Modified: Thursday, May 7th, 2015
File Timestamp: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:37:29 -0400
[info] [links] [edit]