CHESMAYNE Chess Dictionary:- http://homepage.eircom.net/~reidr1/index.html Believe it or not - it comes down to this… Best `MEMORY' wins versus best...
Hi! I've been thinking a lot about leapers, riders and sliders (to me, riders are te pieces that make multiple jumps, like the knightrider, and sliders are the...
Very cool ideas. There was an interesting site I went to that suggested that all normal chess pieces could be displayed on a 5X5 grid. XXXXX X!!!X X!Q!X X!!!X ...
Hi! Thanks. Could you post the site? To those who don't know leparkou is a french sport where you must keep running through obstacles, bouncing, sliding,...
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Nearly 13 years ago, someone with the name "Michael N Goldshteyn" proposed a huge 14x14 Chess variant. His variant was proposed in this Usenet article: ...
I apologize for that looking so ugly; Yahoo groups doesn't allow me to post HTML and I really need a little HTML to give this variant justice. I'll post it to...
Mats, I'm letting you know that I have adopted your Capablance/Teutonic zrf file to play Schoolbook chess. Since this is a Mats Winther zrf, I have added a ...
Through the study of the Griffon, and similar pieces, and a careful look to the Renn Duke, as the Squirrel, I've noticed the existence of a strage family of...
What are your thought of this army for Ches with Different Armies ? It is Alice themed, after the books, not the variant. (Though I actually made it up as one...
This is the John Kipling Lewis piece value system, copied from message #2486 Here is the system: This is a bit involved so let me say from the outset that my...
John, thank you for the information. I have used it to calculate the value of 3 pieces in my game Grand Shatranj. These pieces are the Oliphant; the Lightning...
Leaping in any direction two squares is a very powerfull asset... so I'm not too suprised that the value is so high. Later in the game it's value will be much...
... While the piece, whatever its name, is powerful, it does only move 2 squares, and it has always been put on a "large" board, that is, bigger than 8x8,...
Castling Challenge for Chess960. ... This challenge is more to gather information than an actual challenge. Step 1. Find someone who doesn't know the rules to...
John. Could you send me a link to Chess960? I looked up in the CV page and didn't find it. Thanks! Claudio. PS: Does anyone knows if CV have an orkut...
(Puzzle.Game)...Desert...from www.dreammark.ws(10/22/06) <http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/dream_puzzle/message/44> [Non-text portions of this message have...
How the heck do tournament competitors and top-rated players get so darned good at chess? Well, I can tell you that the really good chess players (the one's...
NAVAL BASE CHESS: This variant in a large board is made to give short range pieces and pawns a little more importance (trying to replicate the aerial dog ...
Hi, Claudio. Thanks! It's great to have you willing to make a contribution. This looks like an interesting idea. It certainly falls well within the guidelines...
Hi Joe! Thank you! I'm happy to know that I can be in the next set. Could you point me a game with the kind ofsolid rules that you talk about? In this way,...
... Hey, Claudio. What you've posted is quite interesting but presently too open-ended. Hope you don't mind if I use my own stuff to give an example of what we...
By the way, anyone sufficiently close to Ann Arbor, Michigan might be interested in attending the U-Con this November 17-19. Most of the U-Con is RPG's, but on...
I'm baaaaaaack! My computer hard drive failed early AM on Sunday, October 29, 2006, just a few minutes after I had sent a bunch of emails. Since then, until...
Hi. In a recent thought about the perfection of chess, I've came with the conclusion that is impossible to apply reverse engeneering to the chess game. I was...
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