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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samhsloan
Nov 11, 2006 3:18 pm
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...
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Mark Thompson
markthomps
Oct 31, 2006 6:50 pm
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...
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Joe Joyce
mjjoyce3
Oct 28, 2006 4:00 am
... 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...
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clajagua31
Oct 28, 2006 12:57 am
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,...
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Joe Joyce
mjjoyce3
Oct 27, 2006 3:56 pm
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...
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clajagua31
Oct 25, 2006 6:34 pm
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 ...
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kydfokkphwkq
Oct 25, 2006 9:05 am
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...
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dinky
cstrike7772001
Oct 24, 2006 4:31 pm
(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...
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...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Oct 22, 2006 1:00 am
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...
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Joe Joyce
mjjoyce3
Oct 18, 2006 2:29 am
... 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,...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Oct 17, 2006 4:03 pm
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...
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Joe Joyce
mjjoyce3
Oct 17, 2006 3:32 am
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...
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Joe Joyce
mjjoyce3
Oct 17, 2006 3:15 am
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...
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arsibahi
Oct 16, 2006 11:57 am
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...
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Jeremy
jez926
Oct 15, 2006 6:53 pm
Does anyone have the rules for this game? I cannot find them anywhere, not even on google....
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clajagua31
Oct 14, 2006 5:24 pm
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...
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Sam Trenholme
samuel_trenh...
Oct 12, 2006 5:01 pm
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 ...
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clajagua31
Oct 10, 2006 4:06 am
Here an article by Mats about his latest pices. Some I had also in mind. Others I still don't get it... Best 4UAll. ...
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Sam Trenholme
samuel_trenh...
Oct 9, 2006 10:05 pm
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...
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Sam Trenholme
samuel_trenh...
Oct 9, 2006 9:59 pm
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: ...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Oct 6, 2006 12:06 am
Hrm... I'll try to dig it up. It was when I was looking for a good way to come up with points for fairy pieces....
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Gregg Eshelman
g_alan_e
Oct 5, 2006 10:03 am
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam...
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clajagua31
Oct 5, 2006 3:23 am
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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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Oct 4, 2006 6:36 pm
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 ...
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clajagua31
Oct 4, 2006 6:04 pm
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...
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Raymond Reid
chesmayne2004
Oct 2, 2006 3:31 pm
CHESMAYNE Chess Dictionary:- http://homepage.eircom.net/~reidr1/index.html Believe it or not - it comes down to this… Best `MEMORY' wins versus best...
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Sam Trenholme
samuel_trenh...
Oct 1, 2006 2:17 am
... It also has to do with the size of the board. There are 1,440 setups in 8x10 chess where the queen is to the left of the queen. If you add a single faerie...
