... 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,...
... Apparently there's a generic term that's similar to what I looking for ("darting"), and the specific term I needed was "cavabal" or "Elban knight". From...
Happy New Year to all! The re-rating of the BrainKing Gothic Chess players is now complete. All 8000+ games were rated in the order in which they occurred...
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/frenchdefenceclub 1. e2-e4 e7-e6 ............. ECO Codes: C00-C19 Top level GM's: Viktor Korchnoi, Wolfgang Uhlmann,...
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Hi List I have been a member here a long time and should post more often. Anyway ....... We are a London-based Games & Software publisher. Just to let you know...
... Interesting stuff! I'm a new member here, and am on the lookout for new and different fairy chess sets with which to play variants. Do you knw of a place...
... I have Exchess sets 1+C and 2. They are indeed high-quality pieces. I just posted an article about playing Dragonchess with them to the Chess Variant...
Gothic Chess sets are sold here: http://www.gothicchess.com/standard_tmnt_edition.html Free Gothic Chess program here: http://www.gothicchess.com/vortex.zip ...
Speaking of which, when a piece is compelled to "flee" the ghast, does that mean one must immediately move to the position that is furthest away from the ghast...
... does that ... from ... It means you make a legal move that ends further away from the Ghast than the piece started. Distance is geometric, so moving from...
My feeling has been that your interpretation, the "further away" one, was the correct one, that as long as you were moving further away, that would suffice,...
http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=Michael+Eric+Dyson -- I try to design for the length of the game -- adjusting the balance of force and space to produce a...
Yes, a while ago, but I forgot that one of them started with 1. Bd3 That does confirm it, doesn't it? Thank you. Speaking of Ralph Betza, is the email listed...
I have some very original and interesting ideas that I'd like to develop with help from a fellow chess variant enthusiast. Anyone want to enter into private...
I've thought of another way of countering the first move priority besides simultaneous chess, though the idea is so simple that I wouldn't be surprised if I'm...
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