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 12 Sharp Chess. (12x12, Cells: 108) [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
Charles Gilman  | None | Yes, it looks right, assuming that you're basing the Shoxiang one on the centrewise variant. | Edit View [*] | |
| Ajax Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
| Fergus Duniho | None | It shouldn't be difficult to program this game for Game Courier. But instead of doing it myself, I will leave it as an exercise for someone else. You can use one of the chess include files. The chess2 include file makes development easier, though the chess include file will also work. Since most of the pieces in this game are divergent pieces, you can look at the code in chess2 for Cannons to see how to program divergent pieces. | Edit View [*] | |
| Fergus Duniho | None | If you do a search on Ajax Chess, you'll find some web-based Chess programs, so called because Ajax is short for Asychronous JavaScript and XML. This game is very similar to Ultra Chess from 1999. While I haven't played this game, what I recall from playing that game is that adding a King's move to each piece took away from the distinctiveness of each piece, making it harder for pieces to threaten each other without being threatened back, and I believe it made the Knight a little too powerful. But this game avoids these faults, because the pieces cannot capture with their additional powers of movement. | Edit View [*] | |
| Swiss Hippo [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| Fergus Duniho | None | I have updated the User's Guide to explain how to change the appearance of an ongoing game: Game Courier User's Guide: How to Change the Appearance of Your Game. | Edit View [*] | |
Wuji Chinese Chess . (13x12, Cells: 156) [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
| Yu Ren Dong | None | http://boreiyu.myweb.hinet.net/lit/Wuji-Chess.zip Now it is available again. | Edit View [*] | |
| Swiss Hippo [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| Vitya Makov | None | Attack, I don't understand... I wrote that want to play Western pieces preset and sent you this preset. It's my choice and my right. Please send new invites for Round two and delete these. | Edit View [*] | |
| Circular CV [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| Jörg Knappen | None | I am looking for a certain circular chess variant I have seen in the 1980s. It was published in a physics students' journal (if I remember correctly from Bochum) in germany. The board consisted of a full circular disk. The 'squares' in the innermost disk were triangular sectors. It used standard chess pieces. The most striking feature I still remember is that the bishop changes the square colour while crossing the center. Does anyone know this variant? | Edit View [*] | |
| Unable to delete [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| Jose Carrillo | None | Fergus, Can you delete this one too? http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=j_carrillo_vii-josesanfer-2004-151-422 I checkmated my opponent a few years ago, yet the game never changed status to completed, and still shows in my active game list. I get the same error that Jeremy got below about not having permission to delete it Thanks. Jose | Edit View [*] | |
| Swiss Hippo [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| attack hippo | None | For those concerned about the pieces in the Xiang Hex preset, you can freely modify which ones are displayed just for you by selecting what you want under the piece set. For instance, if you don't understand the Chinese pieces, you can use the Alfaerie set with either rooks or chariots. Just select your piece set and hit submit/verify (I forget which) without sending a move and it will change the board. No reason to restart the round. | Edit View [*] | |
| Piececlopedia [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| Carlos Cetina | None | Nick: Excellent if you add the WKC's pieces! John: Thanks for the clarification. I don't remember exactly where I read the expression 'dabbabah runner' for referring to the Adjutant. I will make the correction later. Then the Adjutant and the Emperor are two different pieces and this last also deserves its place in the Piececlopedia. | Edit View [*] | |
 Game Courier Developer's Guide. [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
| Fergus Duniho | None | I have updated the sections on optimization and learning by example. If you're a GAME Code programmer or want to program in GAME Code, it is worth checking out the changes to these sections. | Edit View [*] | |
| Piececlopedia [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| John Ayer | None | The Adjutant is a combination of a bishop (or ferz-rider) and a dabbabah-rider. It is not lamed orthogonally. The combination of bishop and lame dabbabah-rider was introduced more than fifty years ago as the Emperor, but to avoid confusion with Emperor King Chess I reduced it in rank to a Grand Duke. | Edit View [*] | |
| Nicholas Wolff | None | I have a prest for WKC! | Edit View [*] | |
| Carlos Cetina | None | I think the pawn you mention is the Sergeant. | Edit View [*] | |
| Carlos Cetina | None | Rich: Could you indicate me in which chessvariant is used that Eurasian Pawn? Until now I'm considering only to add pieces that are used in chessvariants posted in this website in such a manner that I could utilize the corresponding icons. | Edit View [*] | |
| Rich Hutnik | None | Do you have a 'Eurasian Pawn' (if not that, one under another name)? It moves forward one space, but may capture one space forward, or either space in front of it diagonally. There is an option with it where it may move either one or two spaces forward as its first move (option depends on player and game conditions) | Edit View [*] | |
| Unable to delete [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| Fergus Duniho | None | I don't know what the problem was, but I deleted it for you. | Edit View [*] | |
| Jeremy Good | None | My opponent wanted me to delete this game (because we decided it wouldn't be part of our variants tour) but when i tried to, i got a new error msg saying i don't have permission to delete it. So what's next? Who do I ask permission from to delete it? | Edit View [*] | |
 Easy Chess. [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
mr T  | Good | Haven't played in years... the game let me win... I think it is trying to take my money.. thanks for the boost.. Now I am going to lead a class of middle schoolers tomorrow in a new chess club... Wish me luck! | View [*] | |
| Piececlopedia [all messages] [add response] | ||||
| Carlos Cetina | None | We can update gradually the Piececlopedia devoting each day some minutes to add new piece descriptions by means of this subject of the Comments and Ratings section. The basic idea is to make little changes to the text show below, that it's a reproduction of the Piececlopedia index in which I have added a few new pieces to show how we can work on the matter.
If anyone wants to contribute, copy the text written by me with HTML tags from the editing page and paste it into the box of the new comment where the addtions will be done. Special, detailed descriptions of any particular piece can be made by creating one subject by piece with its respective link in the index. Subsequent contributors would do the same with the work of the last predecessor; thus, the last work would be always the updated Piececlopedia and periodically (every 6 months, say) Fergus could transfer the document to its original place. I propose to destinate a space at the end of the document for comments and a short explanation about what the contributor has done.
A Aanca. Historic piece that steps one space orthogonally then slides like a Bishop.
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C Caliph. compound of Bishop and Camel. Author: Charles Gilman. Inventor: Mark Hedden and Charles Gilman.
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O Orphan. Moves like a piece that attacks it. Author: Ben Good. Inventor: David L. Brown.
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The new pieces added are: aanca, adjutant, archer, assassin, bottom heart, catapult, crooked rook and top heart. I will be adding more gradually. Of course, the inverted knight icons are pending of change for true ones. Your contribution is welcomed. | Edit View [*] | |
| Helping us Maintain this Site. [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
| peter hodgkinson | None | At the age of 75 I am a novice trying to keep my memory going and had to find a set of chess and a board. On one of my visits to a Spanish market I found a set in wooden box the pieces of which are unusual. I am curious to know if they are common or not. In general terms the pieces are representative of the Persion Empire and the Moors. Each piece appears to be hand painted and in very fine detail. Pawns of course are representative of each army. The kings and queens again the same each in costume and highly detailed even under a glass. and full colour. The Rooks fitting for the religen and again is intricate detail with arabic lettering around tghe base and a date 2004 along with a name but the name is like normal hand writing and difficult to read. The detail is amazing- eg. the face of the king is only 5mm across and 8cm tall, but it is lifelike. The clothing, jewelery, skin, etc almost flawless even under strong magnification. The Bishop clothed in irmine in white, red and blue. The Knights are on horseback with the horse rearing detail amazing. All have the arabic around the base and one set is dark around the base and the other a lighter colour otherwise all pieces are in true ... [view entire] | View [*] | |
| 12 Sharp Chess. (12x12, Cells: 108) [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
| Nicholas Wolff | None |
Hey Charles,
I am actually in the process of trying to make presets for your 12# variants. I was
a little confused on some of the pieces (I think some images represented different
pieces as the different variants were listed). I have made a list of what variants
you listed and what I believe to be the opening setup of the armies. Could you
please look over what I have written and correct the inefficiencies? Thank you.
-Nick
12# COURIER 12# EURASIAN 12# WILDEURASIAN QI
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RBKQBR RCQKCR RCWTCR
NAFFAN NOBBON BOQKOB
PPPPPP PPPPPP MNNM
12# TIMUR 12# MITREGI 108 12# WILDEBEEST
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AMDDMA LEXKEL RBQKBR
RIGKIR RBBR MNWWNM
NFWWFN HYVVYH PPPPPP
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Decimal Quadruple Besiege.  (20x20, Cells: 200) [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
| Charles Gilman | None | Well most of my Quadruple Besiege variants have at least twice as many pieces with a Rook move, so that will help Checkmate to happen. Remember that the minimum to Checkmate on a board with edges is a Rook plus one's own King, so an extra Rook to effect a virtual edge should allow the same on this board. The geometry is not quite Moebius, it's a bit more complex than that. A single orthogonal step across a horizontal join appears as a 10:9 leap. Bishops really are colourbound and, as I say in the text, each visible 10-cell diagonal loops round dircetly on itself. | Edit View [*] | |
 Extra Move Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [all comments] [add a rating or comment] | ||||
| Jeremy Good | None | Just want to report: I was, in fact, able to move when I tried today - not sure what the problem might have beeen - whether with me or something else. If I recall correctly, I had been getting error messages when I tried to enter any move. But if I'm wrong, perhaps I was trying to enter an illegal move, like a check or capture on the second move, most likely. At any rate, I appreciate your work you've done on this and the attention you've paid to it, with apologies if I misdirected it. Regards. | Edit View [*] | |
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