Black starts the game intesting to Draw as black. He should not get an advantage for doing so. White and Black should get no points for a Draw, as if both...
I was toying with an idea for removing the first move advantage for white. It would be a single rule, and it may have already been proposed. It's a tweak on...
Thank you for your feedback, John. Your idea, John, was my original proposal, that a draw should be equivalent to a loss, i.e., both worth zero points. That...
John: You're giving white the first move, but Black gets more power on his first move! Good idea. You should give it a name. Of course, it would have zero...
My suggestion is informed by years of running tournament experience (albeit not chess) where aggressive play was encouraged. The point at which someone must...
Interesting. What are your competitive tournament points of reference? ... -- I try to design for the length of the game -- adjusting the balance of force and...
A further thought, and rather a whimsical one, inspired by my own sardonic characterization of a system which gives zero points to a loss. "Draw is the new...
... 1. Nf3 keeps White's advantage, IMHO. On the other hand, the pie rule may work better. This works as follows: * White makes a move. * Black then decides...
The Pie Rule is a powerful rule for equality, but does require a working knowledge of opening theory by both players. In otherwords, the Pie Rule only works...
To make the most of the long-leaper, this could be the right method. Please inform me whether this variant has been invented before. In "Dromedary Chess" the...
... White doesn't really have a first move advantage in games played by beginners who don't know opening theory well enough to see what a good first move for ...
I continued in this vein of "lent power" and came up with "Hopper Chess." In Hopper Chess the objective is checkmate. Normal chess rules apply except for the...
I don't know of any. Smart idea. As an aside, in Gary Gifford's Time Travel Chess, it is only kings and pieces adjacent to kings that can engage in time...
http://play.chessvariants.org/tournaments/gc3-poll1.php Hey, people, be sure to vote for which games you'd like to see played in the next chess variants...
Remember to vote go here: http://play.chessvariants.org/tournaments/gc3-poll1.php I voted for these games - about 110 of them! - (I will likely go back and ...
Ah yes, it's because it's one of those many presets that I have in storage and hadn't gotten around to submitting. I have now though so it will be on the poll....
... Thanks Jeremy. Let it remain as Schach-B. In the mean time I have managed to write a preset myself, so I will post that. You could remove Schach-B, but...
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Remember, in this poll, you can vote for as many as you like. Here are the current top vote getters in the Chess Variants tournament first poll: Omega Chess...
If you want to vote, here's the link again. http://play.chessvariants.org/tournaments/gc3-poll1.php [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Vote on mine! I have now created email presets for many of my chess variants. Those of you who prefer more or less standard chess, or FischeRandom, should look...
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/frenchdefenceclub 1. e2-e4 e7-e6 ............. ECO Codes: C00-C19 Top level GM's: Viktor Korchnoi, Wolfgang Uhlmann,...
The Spring 2006 poll for selecting a new recognized variant will be ending soon. It is programmed to end with Spring itself at the dawn of the Summer Solstice,...
... If my Chess256 could just get one more vote! It's regular chess, only that pawns are randomized on the second and third rank. I think it is important to...
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