Check out Atomic Chess, our featured variant for November, 2024.


[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ]
[ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ]
[ List Latest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]

Comments/Ratings for a Single Item

Later ⇩Reverse Order⇧ Earlier
Janus Kamil Chess. A crossover between Janus Chess and Modern Kamil Chess. (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Apr 7, 2018 03:29 PM EDT:

I have modified this page so it is now formatted consistently with those of other games on the Chess Variant Pages.

Here are my estimates of the piece values:

Piece Midgame Value Endgame Value
Pawn 1.00 1.25
Camel 2.50 2.50
Knight 2.75 2.75
Bishop 4.00 4.00
Rook 5.50 6.00
Janus 9.00 9.00
Queen 12.00 12.00


Jeremy Good wrote on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 02:57 PM EST:
Ah, yes. Okay, it was my fault for the confusion. Thank you.

JKn wrote on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 11:10 AM EST:
The King goes to the square immediately besides the rook and the rook jumps over the king. This is how castling works in Janus Chess and Janus Kamil Chess. --JKn

Jeremy Good wrote on Sun, Mar 19, 2006 10:47 PM EST:
The rules for castling aren't stated exactly either here or in the rules for Janus Chess. How far towards the rook is the king supposed to go?

George Duke wrote on Mon, Mar 28, 2005 09:17 PM EST:
'JKL,LargeCV': Janus Chess(8x10) first pairs Cardinal(B,N)calling them Janus, a quarter century ago. Archbishop Chess in Chess Variant Page recently mixes up Janus' array. Also under CVPage, 2002 'Modern Kamil'(10x10, or else 84-square 8x10 with four corner tack-ons) uses Camel paired instead: 'in Memory of the Thousand Years of Arabic Chess Tradition.' So what else, but the marriage 'Janus Kamil(JK)', logical. Computer could generate hundreds of alternate initial set-ups (nothing compelling about Rook at b1,b10 etc.)on 10x12, but maybe 8x12 would be better. Knappen's Quintessential Chess sharply tailors pieces to go with its neat Quintessence, also reaching Camel(and N) squares. This Janus Kamil seems more common variety 'cut-and-paste' popular since turn of millennium.

Anonymous wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 05:03 AM EDT:
In answer to the previous comment: in the large variant both answers 
are YES.

--J'org Knappen

Anonymous wrote on Tue, Aug 17, 2004 03:33 PM EDT:
Can a Pawn advance three squares on its first move? If so, are the en passant rules like those of Omega Chess?

7 comments displayed

Later ⇩Reverse Order⇧ Earlier

Permalink to the exact comments currently displayed.