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Quantum Chess. Chess with a quantum mechanical twist.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Ben Reiniger wrote on Wed, Apr 21, 2021 03:35 AM UTC:The Classified Encyclopedia has an entry for Quantum Chess, but it's a different game (seemingly the one described in Variant Chess 17); did this game appear in the original Encyclopedia and get replaced/removed in the new one?
Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2021 05:26 PM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from 08:35 AM:The generated code has variables for updating the image format, folder, and filenames for each piece, so I see no reason why this should be an issue.
Is there a way to use the alfaerie many graphics from the diagram designer and game courier in the interactive diagrams?
Jetan. Large variant from the book The Chessmen of Mars. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2021 01:03 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 12:33 PM:Ok, this change has been made.
I wrote this page 24 years ago and I included this:
A variant
Even the Martians have variants on their own type of chess. According to Burroughs, the older version of Jetan had Odwars instead of Fliers that could not jump over intervening pieces.
I can't find where I had taken this information. It is simply wrong. Burroughs did not write this, actually he wrote that the Odwar and the Flier have the same power and move. It is just a different name for the SAME piece.
Letting this wrong information is confusing a lot of people. I cannot modify this page myself, so I beg an editor to simply remove this small paragraph which is incorrect. Thanks
Kyoto Shogi style switchbacks could be interesting. But there is a problem: the instant a Pawn or Drunk Elephant moves, it would be forced to promote, which boosts defense early on and makes the game less interesting in my opinion. Of course, this can be easily solved by including exceptions to this rule for those pieces, and providing some sort of visual cue to match. But to me, the condition that promotion/demotion only happens on captures makes more sense, as you would need less visual cues for it.
Yes, definitely some of the promotions would need to be changed to make Kyoto-Suzumu playable. It could be interesting to follow Kyoto Shogi's lead, and change the promoted sides of the Pawns/Drunk Elephants so that the pieces swap between long-range and short-range roles, rather than being defensively strong in both (and it's probably sensible to scrap the promotion to Prince entirely).
Probably most of the promotions/demotions would benefit from changes, really; I agree with you that having no exceptions to the rule would be preferable, so the whole thing would have to be carefully tested. I'd be inclined to have most pieces promote/demote to pieces that don't share most of their moves, so that players have to cope with each piece having two distinct personalities from move to move. In any case, these sorts of questions are what intrigues me about the idea -- it'd be quite a design challenge :)
Thanks for reintroducing the two different colours to Hanten! That's a helpful little mnemonic for players new to the switchback-capture idea.
ChessV
. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Impressive work, Greg!
I really appreciate implementing my 2 games: Apothecary chess classic and Apothecary chess modern as they were quite a challenge. I can hardly wait for the source code once you post everything from the official release.
📝Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Apr 15, 2021 01:24 PM UTC:In Chess with Jokers, the queen piece is a joker. I used this for developing and testing the joker piece. It seems I never updated the graphic used. I'll fix that now.
Thanks, Duplex Chess is a very good game that I need to get posted. It is my attempt to make a double-move variant that isn't too overwhelming. No piece moves farther than two spaces. A few notes: the same piece cannot be moved on both moves - except for the king. He can make two moves, including two captures, making him the most dangerous piece. But, if you lose him, the game is over. Also, there are three ways to win: capture your opponent's king, capture all your opponent's pawns, or move your king to the last rank.
Greg, What is chess with jokers supposed to be? To me it looks like regular chess!
The Game of the Three Kingdoms. inese Chess for three players (Game of the Three Kingdoms). (Cells: 135) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Well, although I'm not sure it is so bad if the board is large enough.
This is true.
ChessV. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Okay, Greg, you are welcome. The new link does work. I see that you have added 12 variants including 2 invented by Vitya Makov: Chess 9x9 and Cardinal Chess. Those interested in seeing how ChessV handles these 2 variants take a look at the following YouTube links:
Congratulations and thank you for such a commendable work you do!
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Despite the nice geometric move pattern this piece seems to be unemployed before Musketeer Chess. I can understand why: It creates triple forward forks into the rank behind the pawn line and is a very dangerous attacking piece. Creating a playable game with this piece is definitely a challenge (I haven't examined Musketeer Chess in this respect).
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Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Apr 13, 2021 07:52 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:39 PM:I don't know of anything else using this piece. Team-Mate Chess uses a "Mortar" which has AG moves, but not DH. That is the closest I know of.
Does anyone know games which are using Alfil/Dabbaba/Threeleaper/Tripper. Musketeer Chess has it as an Hawk. Is there other games, and how they call this piece?
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Lemurian Shatranj. 8x8 variant that features short-range pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]💡📝Joe Joyce wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2021 07:17 PM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 06:42 PM:Thank you, Greg!
Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2021 06:42 PM UTC in reply to Joe Joyce from 06:16 PM:Thanks, Joe!
The next release of ChessV will have "Bent" removed from the names and the updated promotion rule.
💡📝Joe Joyce wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2021 06:16 PM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 04:55 PM:Greg Strong wrote on 2021-04-12 EDT
A promoted colorbound piece may not be placed on the same color as the promoting player's remaining piece of that specific type.
Can we please remove this rule? It needlessly complicates the game needlessly IMO. (Similar to recent discussion on Great Shatranj.)
No problem. While I was looking over the rules yesterday, I saw that and considered removing it, but got called away from the keyboard and never did it.
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How can I do it? I see only the default images. I need to somehow use the names for the other images.