Hi. I've been working around with some pieces and trying to figure it out ir a chess board in real game playing. One piece in particular had, in a first...
Hi. I'm new here, and, since I can't, I don't know why, post in the page my variation, and I would like some backup about it. I don't even know if the pieces...
In variants which oppose wazirs and ferzes in this way, a surface glance may suggest these Wazirs and Ferzes are just one step away from exchanging with one...
I note that Omegaman uses the "symmetric" castling for this setup. __________________________________________________________________ Nevermind whether or not...
Special thanks to Jeremy Good for creating 2 Game Courier presets from scratch for Opti Chess. Additional thanks to Jeremy Good & Sam Trenholme for revising...
"How about denying White the ability to two-step a Pawn on the first move?" _________________________ Nevermind. I concede my careless reading error. Your...
optimized chess 8H x 10W http://www.symmetryperfect.com/shots/opti/ What started out as a puzzle has become a real game. Despite my original intentions to the...
In Mirror Chess, typically Black moves are mirror images of White moves; a variety of openings and problems arise with this theme. Mirror Chess appeals to me...
This is sort of germane to this discussion on the relative playability of toroidal to regular variants. I just sent this to Sam, but meant to send it to...
Hi, Matthew. Well of course, the entire board can't be toroidal because that would mean that each side would be touching the other side. Each king would be in...
At the bottom of his essay about Outrigger Chess, under the heading "ridiculous complexity" Ralph Betza suggests the possibility of concentric Outrigger Chess...
Out of curiosity, I turned my attention to the pawn coverage in the standard 8 x 8 game. There are 14 used and 2 wasted out of a potential 16 (2 per pawn). ...
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DGrand+Cavalier+Chess%26settings%3Ddefault Well, Matthew, now that I see what you're driving at, there is a...
Geez. It looks like Betza anticipated my two zone idea and did me one better. Well, I did a preset for the Outrigger Torus variation, if anyone would like to...
"This has, interestingly enough, already been thought up independently." ________________________________ I understand. Thanks again for the tip. So, is...
*http://tinyurl.com/p7mm8 Apparently quite a bit of work has been done already on toroidal chess variants, some with basically the same ideas as mine. My two...
Frankly, the Zillions Of Games program is too weak to crack an egg. So, what it fails to see means little to me. Since pawn stealing materializes as a...
Found another one today: http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/chessb.htm ... -- I try to design for the length of the game -- adjusting the balance of force and space...
It sucked. Why am I not surprised? Thanks for directing your computer program to chew on it and thanks for your expert analysis. It is becoming obvious that...
Based upon the precarious assumption that the standard 8H x 8W game of chess possesses a unique veracity in its design due to its characteristic pawn coverage...
