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David Howe wrote on Sun, Aug 27, 2006 10:04 AM EDT:I have contacted our web hosting service. Possibly they made security changes that caused the uploads to stop working. We haven't changed any of that code in ages, so it's likely some environmental change was made that was outside of our control. We'll keep you posted on this issue. In the meantime, thank you for your patience!
David Howe wrote on Mon, Jan 1, 2007 09:11 AM EST:Happy New Year! We at the Chess Variant Pages would like to thank all our contributors, readers and players for their involvement with our site. It has been a good year, with many significant contributions. It has also been a difficult year, with many technical glitches, and some 'people' issues. We appreciate your patience, your dedication to chess variants, and, of course, your continued participation.
Many thanks also to our volunteers, which includes our entire staff. Being a volunteer here is a practically thankless job (except perhaps once a year!), but we do find it rewarding to be able to support this site, and help foster an interest in chess variants all over the world.
Zone X 
. Chess with a special central Zone, a new piece, and new moves.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Voidrider Chess . A 43 square variant with movable spaces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Russian Symmetrical Chess. Rusian 9x9 variant with symmetrical setup and Pawns that get more powerful halfway across the board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]David Howe wrote on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:21 AM EST:I cannot find this file in any of our backups. Does anyone know where this file might be hiding?
David Howe wrote on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:39 AM EST:Hi Larry, please send it to me at my yahoo address. Thanks!
David Howe wrote on Fri, Feb 9, 2007 12:08 PM EST:If a company is actively marketing a chess variant, then it would be best to obtain permission from that company before posting a set of rules on this site. Another option is to simply post a review of the game, without including a comprehensive description of the rules. Posting a review generally does not require permission.
Chess Variant Pages Membership. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]📝David Howe wrote on Sun, Mar 11, 2007 10:24 PM EDT:You are now a contributor! Apparently, all you have to do is ask!
David Howe wrote on Wed, Mar 21, 2007 11:10 AM EDT:Unless Rifle Chess is also commonly known as Distant Chess (and I don't think it is), my thought is to remove the Distant Chess page. We can, if necessary, add an index entry for Rifle Chess as Distant Chess, if people like the name better, or the name is commonly used. In any case, I don't think we need a separate page for this.
Index page of The Chess Variant Pages. Our main index page.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]David Howe wrote on Tue, Apr 10, 2007 05:18 PM EDT:I have created a Chess Variants Wiki, as a test to see if it would make sense to have a 'sister' site that would be more collaborative in nature. Any one interested should go to: http://chessvariants.wikidot.com/ This will be a learning process for me, as I am not familiar with administrating or building Wikis. My impression is that the Wiki community itself does most of the work. Is that right? ;-)
David Howe wrote on Thu, Apr 12, 2007 09:44 PM EDT:Thanks Joe. I hadn't realized I had to approve new members. I've set up the site so that a password can be used so that new members can avoid waiting for me to approve them. The password is cvp2007 The proposed chessvariants wiki is at: http://chessvariants.wikidot.com/ It is not intended to replace chessvariants.org, nor is it intended to replace the chess variants section of the wikipedia. 3 people have joined up so far, but couldn't do anything because I hadn't approved them.
David Howe wrote on Fri, May 25, 2007 10:35 AM EDT:There was a strange character at the end of the name, which messed up my script. I removed the strange character (it was ampersand pound 1611 semicolon, which is an arabic diacritic). Here how the character would appear in HTML:
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Anyway, it was expanded into an HTML entity character sequence, which my script doesn't handle well. Sorry about that.
Armies of Faith 1: The Dawn of Civilisation. The first in of a series of 3d variants themed on various religions of history. (3x(9x9), Cells: 243) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]David Howe wrote on Tue, Jun 5, 2007 10:08 PM EDT:John William Brown uses the term 'lame' in his book Meta-Chess (page 12-20), which was published in 1997. It also appears in our Glossary of Chess Variant Terms: http://www.chessvariants.org/misc.dir/coreglossary.html#L
Multimove Chess. Players spend points to make multiple moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]💡📝David Howe wrote on Thu, Jul 26, 2007 08:39 AM EDT:'For any other piece [than a knight] to make a non-capturing move two spaces, it costs 3 points.' I don't think that's true. Rather, it is true for pawns and kings, but for a queen, bishop or rook, it would cost 2 points (1 point to move through the first square, and 1 point to move into the destination square). Jeremy, if you could point out which rules have lead you to believe the statements you made, I would appreciate it. I'll want to modify them to be more clear. Thanks!
💡📝David Howe wrote on Thu, Jul 26, 2007 01:53 PM EDT:Yes, that's correct! Pieces that can change direction in the course of a single, legal move, would not pay an extra point for doing so. The penalty is only for making extra moves (not for moving through extra squares).
💡📝David Howe wrote on Sun, Jul 29, 2007 10:02 AM EDT:Or how about a progressive extra cost, so that the 2nd move costs an extra point, the 3rd move costs an extra 2 points, the 4th move an extra 3 points? I would be willing to try this, or your suggestion of a fixed extra 2 points.
Chess Variant Pages Membership. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]📝David Howe wrote on Mon, Aug 6, 2007 08:28 AM EDT:You have two accounts, one as a contributor and one as a user. Your
contributor account had no email address associated with it, so there was
no option for you to register. I have now added your email address to your
contributor account, and you should be able to register using that account.
Just go to your member page.
45 or 46 Cell Contest - 2007 Design Contest. Quick contest for 45 or 46 cells. Deadline for Submissions: November 30, 2007.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] 3d Minishogi. A variant originally devised for a contest that never materialised. (3x(3x5), Cells: 45) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]David Howe wrote on Thu, Sep 6, 2007 10:40 AM EDT:Depending on many factors (one being the width of the window one uses when browsing) the diagram can appear horizontally skewed. The fix for this is to enclose the diagram in an html table.
David Howe wrote on Sat, Sep 22, 2007 04:57 PM EDT:If you post it as a game, I'll change it to an article.
Whale Shogi. Shogi variant. (6x6, Cells: 36) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]David Howe wrote on Tue, Oct 2, 2007 09:54 AM EDT:Doug, you should now be able to register. Just go to your information page and follow the instructions. Your information page is here.
Once you finished registering, you should be able to post your own games.
David Howe wrote on Tue, Oct 16, 2007 10:48 AM EDT:I've been thinking lately that we should expand our 'recognized variants' system to include people and software. As an editor, I will refrain from making suggestions, but if enough of our readers feel a particular person or program deserves recognition, please post something under this subject. Thanks!
Rules of Chess: Kings and check FAQ. Answers to frequently asked questions on the rules of chess regarding kings and check.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]David Howe wrote on Wed, Dec 26, 2007 08:17 AM EST:FIDE laws of chess: 3.9 The king is said to be 'in check' if it is attacked by one or more of the opponent's pieces, even if such pieces are constrained from moving to that square because they would then leave or place their own king in check. No piece can be moved that will either expose the king of the same colour to check or leave that king in check. http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=EE101
Chess Variant Pages Membership. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]📝David Howe wrote on Sun, Feb 24, 2008 10:34 AM EST:chessvariants.org scripts are unable to send email. I have contacted our hosting service, but so far have been ignored. User id pleyades21 should now be registered, and I have emailed that user a new password. Sorry about the continuing problems with email...
Chess Eccentricities. An old book on Chess variants from 1885.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]David Howe wrote on Sun, Feb 24, 2008 12:30 PM EST:That is 'Chess for Six Players', by Dr. Max Lange, Weimar, 1881. It uses 3 chess boards layed side-by-side and 3 sets of chess pieces.
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