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2579 UGLi ;-)
zugzwangingz... Send Email
Aug 2, 2007
10:08 am
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MP2007-2008chess [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
2580 omegamani Aug 7, 2007
5:19 am
Gothic Chess- talk Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gothic_chess See the section "the need to reverse opti chess". See the entry by user Gothic...
2581 omegamani Aug 12, 2007
3:34 pm
Opti Chess articles for deletion Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Optimized_C hess This is an interesting development. ...
2582 UGLi ;-)
zugzwangingz... Send Email
Sep 5, 2007
11:48 am
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2583 clajagua31 Send Email Sep 23, 2007
5:03 am
This is a humble homage to the Ghostrider picture. The game is played as the FIDE chess, but, the knight whenever gets in the face of evil (threatened by an...
2584 John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal Send Email
Sep 23, 2007
2:14 pm
Is this in honour of the movie?...
2585 clajagua31 Send Email Sep 23, 2007
4:23 pm
-Actually to honour the character. But I've used the new DVD date to do it. Hugs! -- In chessvariants@yahoogroups.com, John Kipling Lewis <jklewis@...> ... ...
2586 John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal Send Email
Sep 23, 2007
6:47 pm
cool. if i get a chance i'll play!...
2587 John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal Send Email
Sep 25, 2007
2:42 pm
a b c d e f g h i j +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ Black 8 |*C*|*R*|*N*|*B*|*A*|*K*|*B*|*N*|*R*|*Q*| 8 ...
2588 UGLi ,-)
zugzwangingz... Send Email
Sep 30, 2007
6:30 pm
... -- I try to design for the length of the game -- adjusting the balance of force and space to produce a shorter, tactical game or a longer, calmer game ...
2589 clajagua31 Send Email Oct 4, 2007
3:20 am
Thank's to bring these pieces up. I've found then in a shogi variant, except for a "queenlike&quot; piece. Hugs and pints 4U all! ... of force ... game ... try to ...
2590 John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal Send Email
Oct 4, 2007
12:22 pm
I was thinking of a variant, but it may already exist. It removes first move advantage for white. Randomly (or the better player) makes four moved for each...
2591 Joe Joyce
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Oct 6, 2007
1:59 am
... Hi, John: Your idea should work; it's an extension of the "pie problem" where the solution is for one to cut the pie and the other to choose first. From...
2592 John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal Send Email
Oct 6, 2007
5:00 am
Actually I realized today that you should be forced to move 4.5 moves, with black to play. I think what would likely happen is that players the white player...
2593 clajagua31 Send Email Oct 7, 2007
5:29 pm
I REALLY DON'T KNOW IF THIS VARIANT ALREADY EXISTS. If it do, my apologies. Based in some observations made by Derek Nalls why chess sucks (that's the name of...
2594 clajagua31 Send Email Oct 20, 2007
4:25 am
They are the hook movers. Apeared in Taikoku Shogi Hugs and pints 4UAll! PS: I've foun 2 different pieces with the same name (unicorn), one a nightrider...
2595 John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal Send Email
Oct 24, 2007
2:13 pm
This is tough. As the space for names for fairy pieces gets smaller and smaller and many pieces have more than one name, there is no authority on names for...
2596 clajagua31 Send Email Oct 24, 2007
7:58 pm
My thoughts exactly!! Actualy, if you read my post in the CV. org page (Piececlopedia) you'll see that one of my complaints was about it! The reverse effect to...
2597 clajagua31 Send Email Oct 24, 2007
8:12 pm
To those who have an Orkut profile, here's a community for CVs in the Orkut: http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=3191256&refresh=1 Hugs and see u there! ...
2598 John Kipling Lewis
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Oct 24, 2007
8:18 pm
Where is the CVWiki? I'd certainly be happy to start sorting out the naming of the pieces. John -...
2599 Joe Joyce
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Oct 24, 2007
10:25 pm
... Hello, John: Welcome aboard! Right now, to the best of my knowledge, Graeme Neatham and myself are the people working on it. We are trying to create a ...
2600 John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal Send Email
Oct 27, 2007
1:27 am
SchemingMind.com in association with the ISRCA presents Stanley Random Chess 2007 Internet World Championship Knock Out Tournament * 1st Prize 500,000 Old...
2601 clajagua31 Send Email Nov 3, 2007
4:34 am
I've been thing aobout the fine art of naming pieces. It's much more difficult than create one. Let's take as an example the Murray's Lion, that captures as a...
2602 samhsloan Send Email Dec 1, 2007
8:32 pm
New Book Just Out: Elista Diaries, updated to include games from the 2007 World Chess Championship http://www.ishipress.com/elista.htm This classic work,...
2604 cescacs chess
cescacs Send Email
Dec 23, 2007
3:26 pm
C'escacs is an 169 hexes hexagonal chess, with a setup very similar to Glinksi's variant, but introducing Capablanca&#39;s pieces (Chancellor named as Dragon, and...
2605 Cesc Sasal i Lasaosa
cescacs Send Email
Dec 23, 2007
3:26 pm
C'escacs is a 169 Glinski like hexagonal chess (setup is quite similar). http://www.geocities.com/cescacs I've just implemented Java Applet static heuristic,...
2606 Manfred Nüscheler
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Feb 13, 2008
8:51 pm
BLACK'S FRENCH HAS SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT! http://chessco.com/news2/?DT769H&sess_id=03324b03b574fd0e296a67a1292e72a8 JOHN WATSON OUTDOES HIMSELF, FINALLY ...
2607 Rich Hutnik
docreason Send Email
Mar 21, 2008
6:36 pm
I am of the belief the issues with chess now have to deal with it getting away from its origins of being a game that was a community development effort that...
2608 George Jelliss
gpjelliss Send Email
Mar 21, 2008
7:05 pm
Sounds interesting. I'd like to know more. Why not write up something for Variant Chess magazine?...
2609 George Jelliss
gpjelliss Send Email
Mar 21, 2008
7:13 pm
I would call the first piece an alibaba + mansaur, and the second piece a man + alibabasaur. Though I'm not sure what you mean by a "man". What the others are...
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