I have updated the Play-by-Mail system at Play.Chessvariants.com to let you record and view annotated games. Although you could sort of do this before by...
Hello Group I am the assistant manager of a small group: http://groups.msn.com/ChessVariantClub We use ZOG2.0 (Zillions of games) to play online. I was...
2.0 does have some nice features including the improved net play. Our group is still quite small about 20. If you are interested just request membership on our...
2003 3-D Chess World Championship Tournament The 3-D Chess Federation ( http://www.3dchessfederation.com ) will officiate the first annual 3-D Chess World...
I am starting up an Amoeba tournament on Richard's PBM server. You must have a userid on Richard's PBM server to play in this tournament. The structure of this...
Game #1 was won by Kasparov playing white in 27 moves. Game #2 was a draw. Game #3 was won by Deep Junior. [Kasparov playing white resigned on the 36th move.] ...
I have found allot of information in the archives about past tournaments but nothing on how to run one. Could someone with experience in this area please let...
It is generally understood that white has a slight advantage, by virtue of moving first. To offset that advantage, and put black on a more equal footing, I...
That sounds like a better-thought-out idea along the same lines as one I proposed here awhile back: which was, that White would not be allowed to castle until...
That's not much of an advantage. How often are you presented with a position where you would desire to castle out of check. Where talking one minute chance...
There could also be placed a turn restriction for this particular privilege. For example, Black could only exercise this new castling move within the first ten...
... position where you would desire to castle out of check. Current chess openings take into account that neither side may castle out of check. Accordingly,...
... within ... It has already been suggested that allowing black to castle would be too minute to counter white's opening advantage, and you're proposing ...
The entire basis for this suggestion is that White has an opening advantage. So, should not any privilege for Black be restricted to the opening? As the game...
... This sounds like quite a few games to me. Now I wanna see numbers in which oppurtunities come up for castling out of check. I would say it would occur in...
The opening extends into the middle game, and there is no clear demarcation as to when the opening ends and the middle game begins. In some games the opening...
I created a ZRF for Equal Opportunity Chess, and ran through some games. There does not seem to be any advantage for Black, or any disadvantage for White....
I think the objection raised by robertkjr3d, that there are few games in which Black has an opportunity to castle out of check, misses an important point: a...
I think this would be a good way to shake up orthodox chess a little -- I mean, a new way to try to get a few from the legions of usual chess players to try...