i'll second that, i'd also like to see a zrf for this game. unfortunately i am not the one to write it. i am looking forward to trying this game and i am...
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thrashprince
Aug 10, 2002 2:54 pm
Hi List, Feel free to circulate this as widely as possible. CHATURANGA the mother of all war games! PRESS RELEASE, August 2002 The software has taken 7 years...
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peteraronson
Aug 14, 2002 6:23 pm
Has anyone ever made a study of what is sufficient material to mate in the Chess variant Knightmate (or Mate the Knight, which seems identical)? (In...
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ozz_z0mbie
Aug 17, 2002 5:40 pm
Anyone interested in playing Tafl, Hnefetafl, or any other tafl variants via e-mail? I'm thinking of starting a yahoo group just for this purpose. Playing Tafl...
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greybishop99
Aug 20, 2002 1:26 am
Bishops, A Chess Variant When a King enters any corner square, both of his Bishops obtain the power of a Queen instantly. If both Bishops are captured, the...
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rahulram2001
Aug 27, 2002 10:10 am
RESPECTED READERS, IF YOU WANT TO LEARN CHESS AT NO FEE JUST MAIL ME AT rahulram2001@... THE THREE LEVELS OF TRAINING ARE , 1.BLT [BASIC...
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omegamani
Aug 27, 2002 3:21 pm
Living Chesses! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livingchesses ___________________________________________ A new discussion group dedicated exclusively to...
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omegamani
Aug 28, 2002 12:30 am
Eliminating the optional 2-space-forward 1st move for all pawns (white & black) would reduce white's 1st-move-of-the-game advantage moderately. Of course, the...
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jianyingj
Aug 28, 2002 12:13 pm
the main web site seems to be down due to bandwidth caps, please confirm...
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chessvar
Aug 28, 2002 1:35 pm
Yes, the site is down. We exceeded 10 Gigabytes! Hopefully we'll be back up soon. --David Howe...
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omegamani
Aug 28, 2002 2:27 pm
... __________________________________ Jolly good show! [Amazing what can be done even without dirty pictures.] How much will it cost to purchase another...
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jianyingj
Aug 29, 2002 1:42 pm
Congrats on getting the site back up!!...
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Nosferatu
thecityoftow...
Sep 19, 2002 8:25 am
This latest version incorporates the recent expansion to David Howe's Alfaerie graphics. http://www.geocities.com/cyberboardchessvariants/.html...
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Nosferatu
thecityoftow...
Sep 19, 2002 8:27 am
Oops! Here's the correct URL http://www.geocities.com/cyberboardchessvariants/ ... Howe's...
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Emmett Robinson
emmettr40
Sep 24, 2002 7:20 pm
I would love to learn the advance or professional lessons i am a good player i am good at combinations and defense. i would like to know about old chess games...
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chessvar
Oct 2, 2002 8:53 am
Hello, I started a new forum, on the chessvariants website; Check it out: forum.chessvariants.com It works more or less like this one here, but without all the...
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chessvar
Oct 2, 2002 9:20 am
Note that you still can submit games to the contest to design a chess variant on 84 squares. Go to www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/contest84/index.html for...
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Derek Nalls
omegamani
Oct 3, 2002 3:24 am
The new CV Pages Forum is in warm, safe water! There is no longer any need to leave the CV Pages and go into Yahoo to find their official discussion group. ...
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Nosferatu
thecityoftow...
Oct 3, 2002 7:39 am
That 25x25 monster chess game(Kaiju Shogi? :))long thought to be the largest CV ever created has been bested, at least in the category of size, by the...
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markthomps
Oct 3, 2002 11:38 pm
... Good grief, how many years does a typical game take? Has one ever been completed? Do players pass on their games to their descendants? I offer the...
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zadojla
Oct 4, 2002 11:53 am
... It was estimated in a earlier post that a typical game might last 5000 moves. If so, a 5000 move game at one move per day would last over 13 years. (I am...
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interrupt27
Oct 4, 2002 11:30 pm
There are several power pieces which should speed the game up. Some have lion moves and others range-jumps. There is still some discussion as to the meaning...
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zadojla
Oct 5, 2002 9:10 pm
... that ... So that gives us a good idea of how thoroughly it's been playtested! Perhaps one game of Taikyoku Shogi is all anyone *wants* to play. ... And now...
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Reza Daneshgar
ir216mindd
Oct 5, 2002 9:45 pm
On his first match against a computer since he lost to IBM's Deep Blue in 1997: – Hopefully I will play better. The chess knowledge of Deep Blue was quite ...
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erasmus39
Oct 12, 2002 11:45 pm
-- On Wed, August 14, peteraronson scribbled: -> Has anyone ever made a study of what is sufficient material to ->mate in the Chess variant Knightmate? ... (In...
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erasmus39
Oct 13, 2002 12:14 am
... ->Living Chesses! ... A new discussion group dedicated exclusively to ->immediately playable (i.e., Zillions-implemented) chess variants. .. .. Uh, say,...
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erasmus39
Oct 13, 2002 12:56 am
... -> Eliminating the optional 2-space-forward 1st move for all pawns ->... would reduce white's 1st-move-of-the-game advantage moderately. ->... ALL opening...
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erasmus39
Oct 13, 2002 1:09 am
... -> Why not just turn it into a game of manual dexterity, flicking the ->pieces at each other? If they fall off the board, they're out. The ->winner is the...
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zadojla
Oct 13, 2002 6:41 pm
... the ... Now you got me to thinking. "Living chess" commonly refers to chess played with humans representing the pieces. My first thought for "Living...
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dtroyka
Oct 14, 2002 12:38 am
... chess ... move ... been ... Better yet, the "mating game."...
