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...
-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@...> ... ...
... -- 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 ...
Thank's to bring these pieces up. I've found then in a shogi variant, except for a "queenlike" piece. Hugs and pints 4U all! ... of force ... game ... try to ...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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! ...
... 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 ...
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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...
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,...
C'escacs is an 169 hexes hexagonal chess, with a setup very similar to Glinksi's variant, but introducing Capablanca's pieces (Chancellor named as Dragon, and...
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,...
BLACK'S FRENCH HAS SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT! http://chessco.com/news2/?DT769H&sess_id=03324b03b574fd0e296a67a1292e72a8 JOHN WATSON OUTDOES HIMSELF, FINALLY ...
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...
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...
... something for Variant Chess magazine? Thanks for the message. If you like, please send me email and I can send you files I have laying out the concept. I...
... I will say, with IAGO Chess (similar in nature to FIDE chess, in that it is more than just a set of rules, but a whole framework to operate in), it has...
