... 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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The correct term is "ziggurat", not pyramid. Very interesting design. I like it. Are you planning to make it so steep that you can't see the pieces on the...
In a message dated 12/22/2005 10:37:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jklewis@... writes: The correct term is "ziggurat", not pyramid. Very interesting...
Does anyone have a current email address for John William Brown, author of _Meta-Chess_? Most of the ones I've tried are bouncing, and the ones that aren't are...
Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas and a most prosperous New Year! I value each and every one of you and my prize in life is your friendship and love. ...
The Chess Variant Pages define modest chess variants in the following way: Modest chess variants meet a specific set of criteria: * Can be played on a standard...
OK, here's another one: Chaos, designed to baffle kibitzers. Hmm, for some reason, I remembered this one while playing successive games of Ultima, Arimaa, and...
It may be too much like a chess variant, but it would baffle observers: This Game is for the Birds: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffmove.dir/forthebirds.html ...
... Thanks, z! This game looks pretty interesting, although I'm having trouble parsing it. Does it use the usual array? I'll take it with me to game night...
... Yes, usual array. I was involved in playtesting it, and it's a pretty good game, invented by Ralph Betza. I think I still may have my Zillions zsg files,...
... pretty ... game ... Nemoroth is one of those games which has thwarted my many attempts at implementation for the Zillions engine. Several times over the...
... Thanks for recommending Nemoroth, folks. I had already been looking at it but wasn't sure what to make of it. Now I will study it more carefully. -- Ron...
In Nemoroth it is very difficult for novices to avoid illegal moves. I played four games via email, and we had forwarded all our moves to a third person, who...
I had thought that a rider moved like a leaper, but didn't leap, so that a knightrider was like a knight, but had to pass through all of the squares of its...
... Hm, maybe I didn't make myself clear. Some riders, like the nightrider, can leap. I want a word for a more restricted form of movement that cannot include...
... There is no special term I know of for a rider that cannot leap. If the atomic move the rider-piece is repeating includes a leap, a rider leaps, if not,...
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