I am trying to buy H. J. R. Murray's History of Chess. The telephone number posted for the Benjamin Press in Northampton, Massachusetts put me in touch with a...
Both Murray's 'A History of Chess' and 'A History of Board Games other than Chess' have been reprinted by the Oxford University press. However, it's a sort of...
... I don't see why agreement would be necessary. The discussion focuses on a variant removed from chess by a few changes, each change can be described in a...
Does anyone here know anything about the variant Transcendental Chess? Years ago, I remember a gentleman named Max Lawrence in Brooklyn NY ran correspondence...
... had ... There is a post on rec.games.abstract by Richard. Basically, an upgrade went sour, and real life took priority. He hopes to get it up in a day or...
Hi all Let me first introduce myself: I'm an evolutionary biologist also interested in the history and evolution of chess variants (seeing variants as...
Does anyone here know where I can purchase back issues of Chess Life magazine? I am trying to fill some gaps in my collection, and I am missing a handful of...
-- In an old posting fduniho scribbled: -> While looking through a crafts store newspaper circular today, ->I got an idea for another way to make Chess variant...
... -> 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...
... -> Here's an example of an opening in EOC (Equal Opportunity Chess) ->... Piano players will recognize this as a variation of the ->Giuoco Piano. .. .....
... -> I would like to propose one more variant which greatly reduces ->white's first-move advantage. ... The optional 2-space forward move ->for pawns on...
... ->... the rules already discriminate, though unavoidably, in giving ->White the first move. .. .. There's an easy and Politically Correct solution to this...
... -> I recommend allowing any player to pass on a turn to move if ->forced instead of re-introducing the "stalemate" rule. Opinions? .. .. In other words,...
"Players simply used up two turns to move pawns two ranks forward instead of the present rule allowing the same thing to be accomplished in one turn." ...
... ->...there is typically one player who keeps trying to press an ad- ->vantage and one player who keeps trying to avoid a disaster. Noth- ->ing less than...
"The first poster makes it sound like there's something wrong with players making 'willful' moves." Please strive for accuracy. You may correctly characterize...
Dear all The last issue of BGS contains an article by Alan Borvo on Saami board games. The article contains a figure showing a chessboard (shahmatiloudi) from...
Dear Lex Are you sure it is the last BGS issue ? The last I got is #5. I remember a paper from Alan Borvo was on Issue 4 I guess, unless you've got the #6, but...
Hi Jean-Louis You're right, it was in issue 4, not 5; sorry for the confusion! I did consider the 9x9 board to be a tablut board, but what goes against this is...
[lex wrote] ... 1941 ... Paatsjoki ... in ... Could he be referring to some form of the game Dablot Prejjesne? It is described in R. C. Bell's "Discovering...
Hi all Saw on a web-site on chess in Pakistan that in that country the game is mostly played "in Moghul style, which is slightly different from international...
Moreover Dablot (which comes from Tables, like Tablut) Prejjesne is also a game related to Tablut, like Hnefatafl and so on (tafl also meaning Tables). Another...
je vous remercie mais je ne joue plus a ses jeux Jean-Louis CAZAUX <jlg.cazaux@...> wrote:Moreover Dablot (which comes from Tables, like Tablut) Prejjesne...
Does anyone know of any email or snailmail groups where I could "testdrive" Fischer Random Chess? I fear that orthodox correspondence chess is perilously...
Hey i was wondering if there are any...like...guides or tutorials or anything that i can find on like a bunch of chess variants in one program or game or...
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