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Great chess. An Indian/Turkish and very playable historic variant on a 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Aug 17, 2007 08:28 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

This game uses an unusual initial setup to achieve a better result than The Sultan's Game, an 11x11 chess variant invented by L. Tressan in 1840. I tried replacing the Queen + Knight compound with the somewhat weaker Bishop + Nightrider compound in Unicorn Great Chess in 2001.

Excellent rating for a game this old, of course Christian Freeling's Grand Chess has set a new standard for chess on the 10x10 board.


Daniil Frolov wrote on Sat, Feb 8, 2014 06:41 PM UTC:
In Tamerlane chess piece, named giraffe is presented among military forces, like elephants, cavalry, camelry and war machines (dababahs). Here is giraffe as well, and here it's the strongest piece. But why? Was giraffes historicaly used for military purposes? Or it's merely imitating of giraffe hunt (with opponent controlling your prey)?
Of course, no question about Grande Acedrex, where most of pieces are named after exotic animals.

Anders Jensen wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2016 06:50 PM UTC:

The game can be played here: https://www.jocly.com/#/game/hyderabad-chess


Kevin Pacey wrote on Thu, Mar 1, 2018 08:10 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

A historic and very playable variant. What's not to love?


Drew Armstrong wrote on Tue, May 11, 2021 03:29 AM UTC:

Seems interesting, I played a game and got annihilated in like 5 moves by the computer though.


H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, May 11, 2021 07:07 AM UTC in reply to Drew Armstrong from 03:29 AM:

Which computer was that?


Georgi Markov wrote on Sat, Oct 22, 2022 01:22 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Tue May 11 2021 07:07 AM:

"A World of Chess" by Jean-Louis Cazaux and Rick Knowlton has this game as Hyderabad decimal chess, with rules which I find a significant improvement to Gollon's. I've made some further suggestions here: https://sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/bgs-2022-0017


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