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Chess Variant Pages Membership. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sat, Jun 12, 2010 02:07 PM UTC:
I've got a game I'd like to post, but I can't. What should I do?

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sat, Jun 12, 2010 02:15 PM UTC:
how should I become a member?

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sun, Jun 13, 2010 06:53 PM UTC:
I can't find my userid where they ask me to leave it

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 10:44 PM UTC:
i'm posting a game for first time, what should i do?

Hexagonal chess - names of squares. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 12:42 PM UTC:
Why isn't J used?

Shogchess. Missing description (9x11, Cells: 99) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 12:25 PM UTC:
1. No, promoted elephant and knight cannot promote further. 
2. I think knight and camel have same value or the camel is stronger. The reason for knights promoting to camels is their movement, knights are (2,1) jumpers and camels (3,1) jumpers. 
3. I must have been sleeping when I wrote this. I'll upload the page as soon as possible. En passant is NOT in this game. :/ 
4. As in shogi, you can't mate with a dropped pawn. I'll include this when I upload the page. Stalemate is draw, as in FIDE chess. 
 
Thank you for the comment! 
Hope you'll enjoy playin'!

💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 12:38 PM UTC:
'Why does the Queen promote to a less powerful piece? While the piece that is normally called an Amazon (Queen+Knight) is more powerful than a Queen, the piece you call an Amazon in this game (Rook+Knight) is not.' 
 
Amazon is (queen+knight), I just screwed up a little. Thanks for the comment anyway!

War of the Worlds. Chess army from planet Earth against the Martian forces of Jetan. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 11:21 PM UTC:
how do pieces move?

Wildebeest Chess. Variant on an 10 by 11 board with extra jumping pieces. (11x10, Cells: 110) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sat, Jun 26, 2010 06:11 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Shogchess. Missing description (9x11, Cells: 99) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sat, Jun 26, 2010 06:15 PM UTC:
Thanks, I'm new to these pages so I don't know how to do things like this

Taikyoku Shogi. Taikyoku Shogi. Extremely large shogi variant. (36x36, Cells: 1296) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 07:59 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
According to http://taikyokushogi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/taikyoku.swf, this mark -|-|-|-> means 'may jump over three pieces on its way'. In this link,  get the piece that starts at 20 32 out on the board and look at the forward-diagonal moves: it may move four spaces into the opponents start row, jumping over three pieces- or one, or two, jumping over one, or three, jumping over two.

Ice Hockey Chess. Chess variant based upon rules of (Ice) Hockey. (8x10, Cells: 68) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Thu, Jul 1, 2010 05:21 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
looks really fun!

Conveyor Chess. Large variant with conveyor belt on middle of board. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Thu, Jul 1, 2010 07:04 PM UTC:BelowAverage ★★
It is interesting but not good enough. You should work on it a little more.

Augmented Knights. Knights receive different additional movement possibilities. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jul 7, 2010 04:39 PM UTC:
According to http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gpjnow/VC-GM.htm,
a (0,3) leaper
is called a threeleaper.

link is broken

Alfaerie Variant Chess Graphics. Set of chess variant graphics based on Eric Bentzen's Chess Alpha font.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jul 7, 2010 05:49 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
love this set!

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jul 7, 2010 05:56 PM UTC:
>>I'm curious: what is the nightknight?<< Don't you mean nightrider? In that case, a nightrider is a piece that moves as a knight and can repeat the previous move as long as every passed-by squere is empty. (ex.: a nightrider on b1 could move to c3 and then continue to d5 (if c3 was empty) and then to e7 (if d5 was empty). If it captures a piece, it must stop.

Shogchess. Missing description (9x11, Cells: 99) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:14 PM UTC:
Thanks for that, David

Óskar's 3dchess. Missing description (5x(8x8), Cells: 320) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 12:25 PM UTC:
David,
I agree. I'm working on a better solution, this is only the first try. I find most 3d chess variants too complicated, I simply was trying to make gameplay easier. I am (like I said before) working on - my new version (not posted yet) has got 48 pieces, that is 15% (still too low) and it has got the mace, the mace-bishop, mace-rook and the rook-bishop.

💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 05:36 PM UTC:
David,
I do own the zillions demo but that's it. And I don't know where to download and how much to spend on the full version. If I had got some more chess-sets I would propably test-play this game. (I've got two out of five...) I'm thinking about your advice about the extra leapers, but after checking out the 3-dimensional eight level chess, 3d8l (link: http://www.hixoxih.com/games/chess/3D8L.htm ) ,which has got four kinds of leapers I did not want to 'steal' these pieces... If you've got any more ideas, please contact me at: [email protected] ,or just leave a comment as always......

CARDCHESS. Utilizes the two key elements of card games: four suits and the ability to place cards face down to hide their values. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 10:00 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I love this game! I've played it on Icelandic (where it's name is Hrókurinn, meaning 'the Rook' ) along with my friends. It is wery fun!!! Best of all is the different types of game modes you can choose from. Or you could just make up your own, which (should be) easy.

Óskar's 3dchess. Missing description (5x(8x8), Cells: 320) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 08:07 PM UTC:
I do not own a credit card...

Shogchess. Missing description (9x11, Cells: 99) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 11:17 AM UTC:
Thanks Daniil!

XSChess. Xiangqi plus shogi plus chess. (9x14, Cells: 126) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 02:14 PM UTC:
Daniil, 
I'm glad you asked. Yes, pawns do promote although I forgot to mention it. Their promoted form is the gold, as in Shogi.
The idea about the XS-chess pawns is that it is the shogi pawn (straight forward, capturing as it moves, promoting to gold), the xiangqi pawn (straight forward, captures as it moves, can move and capture one sideways upon crossing the river) and the chess pawn (one squere forward, captures one diagonally, can move two squeres forward on it's intial move. Can capture En-Passant forward (as the chess pawn only can move forward)). That becomes the XS-chess pawn: Moves one squere straight forward (all variants), captures as it moves (xiangqi, shogi) or one squere diagonally forward (chess), can move and capture one squere sideways after it crosses the river (xiangqi), can move but not capture two squeres forward on it's intial move (chess), promotes to gold (shogi) and can capture En-Passant forward only (chess) as the xiangqi pawn (who can move sideways after crossing the river) can never move two squeres at once, only the chess pawn can (and only forward). As pawns can move sideways after crossing the river, they can always move, no matter what. All those 'extra effects' makes the XS-chesspawn much more powerful than normal chesspawns, normal shogipawn or even normal xiangqipawn! I still say it is worth one point but in fact it should be three or four points...

Óskar's 3dchess version 2. Missing description (5x(8x8), Cells: 320) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 07:37 PM UTC:
Most of the pieces come from the 3D8L chess... But thanks anyway

Chess on Steroids. Pieces increase their powers with those of the pieces they capture. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 09:07 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Some of the combined pieces look a bit to complicated to me. I'd like some diagrams to help me understand these pieces. I agree with Tim, the pegasus sounds simply too strong. But I still like this idea, and would like to play it. I'm out looking for extra pieces...

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