Dear Chess Friends- The final issue of the World Chess Championship Special just been mailed out. Our team has honor to do the extensive coverage of the WCC,...
I am organizing a human chess tournament for our local Renaissance Faire(where the people are the chess pieces). I have looked around and come up short on...
There is a version where you roll dice to see who captures whom. I would suggest that you use rock/paper/scissors with the capturing piece being able to also...
I'm assuming in my previous post that you wanted the pieces themselves to combat. If you didn't care about that you could roll dice based on piece type: pawn:...
These are great. I'd forgotten about the bomb rule. I like the dice option. Which reminds me, I need to dig up my Chess =iser dice, just in case. Remember the...
If all combatants were SCA or knew some kind of fake combat you could, but I'll assume that they want attending people to be the pieces. Don't forget the...
If you want the pieces to make the decision of the forms of attacks, such can be done with cards. Each piece recieves the necessary cards describing the...
Gothic Vortex "Copper" is now available for free: no shareware registration, totally free. http://www.GothicChess.com/vortex.zip Contains: opening book with...
http://www.gothicchess.com/javascript_endings.html Solutions to some of the more interesting endgames from the 300 billion+ Gothic Chess endgames are shown...
I was looking through my game archives and ran across my Knightmare Chess cards. I have both sets. I started pondering the possibilities of using these cards...
You're right. As it turns out, I thought my teams would have captains calling out the moves (I'm still pushing for this.) The powers that be are saying the...
Hello, May I suggest an update for your excellent online dictionary? You have most of the Gothic Chess links associated with "ChessVariants.org" but we really...
Mr. Goichberg has consistently avoided addressing the specifics of issues concerning the development of local chess organization in the US while he has allowed...
Dear Pushed Pawn, If you were correct about Mr. Goichberg, I would agree with you, but you are dead wrong. Bill Goichberg's tournament chess promotion...
... Isn't this particular site merely a news discussion forum? and has little or nothing to actually do with chess? Except maybe the occasionally spotting of...
"Isn't this particular site merely a news discussion forum and has little or nothing to actually do with chess?" ______________________________________________...
What about UFC or Pride FC fighting with chess? These type of matches tend to end more quickly than boxing matches, so the chess games might need to be faster...
But seriously ... I'm afraid noone (including both players, on most occasions) would pay equal attention to the board game which should be the main attraction....
Dear Chess Friends- US Champion Hikaru Nakamura has joined "the Chess Chronicle" as an Editor. World #5 GM Vasily Ivanchuk writes for the Magazine! The 10th...
greetings citizens of the chess variants world: My name is Bill and I've played chess since early childhood and now am looking into the variants. I saw some...
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