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Fairyranga. Game based on Chaturanga & Makruk with Southeastern, Mongolian and even Russian elements. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Wed, Mar 20 10:05 PM UTC:

Diceroller is Fire wrote on Tue, Jan 23 12:41 AM AST: "... {to him} так что добрый день, рад Вас видеть; я правильно понял, что Вы на сайте с 2000-х?"

I joined this site in 1996. Currently working on Alice Courier Chess - the Courier piece moves like a Dragon Horse.

Sorry, I usually skip over comments in the Cyrillic alphabet - it has been long time since I took Russian in university. My grandparents came to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1910. They spoke Romanian and German.


Equalized Shatranj. (Updated!) Basic weak moves of ancient pieces are compensated by their numbers. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Wed, Mar 20 06:47 PM UTC:

I have been thinking about "Shatranj Style" variants where Pawns promote to Rooks (and only Rooks). Perhaps this would increase the number of decisive endgames. Promotion to a "brand new piece" in this game is acceptable to me, considering I already have appropriate chess pieces lying around my house. Rather than bore you with a thousand words, I will finish this comment with a picture:

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Equalized Shatranj with Knights

In short, I removed eight pieces to the left of the White King and added a pair of Knights. Love those Knights, hate Wazirs. This "crooked pawn structure" was featured in several of my games on this site. Also, my [Mar 1, 2007] Comment on Makrochess has some relevance here.


4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Each side has 4 Kings, all pieces are short range. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Wed, Mar 20 05:44 PM UTC:

I have been thinking about "Shatranj Style" variants where Pawns promote to Rooks (and only Rooks). Perhaps the endgames would be more decisive. Personally, I have no objection to promotion to a "brand new piece" in this game, as I already have the appropriate chess pieces lying around my house.

An interesting feature of this game is that the four White Alibabas in can be traded directly for the Black Alibabas. Even if each Alibaba is replaced by an Alfil, this remains true (a feature of the 10x10 board). This inspires me to try an unusual setup on 64 squares, which I will cover later today in a comment on

Equalized Shatranj.


Fairyranga. Game based on Chaturanga & Makruk with Southeastern, Mongolian and even Russian elements. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Tue, Jan 23 12:42 AM UTC:

One observation: if you add a forward only Dababba move to the Silver Elephant piece in this game, you will have the Great Elephant in White Elephant Chess by Peter Aronson.


Duck Chess. A Duck that must be moved by both players can block your moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Nov 5, 2023 12:02 AM UTC:

Back on 2005-03-08 a BLOCKADE STALEMATE IN 20 MOVES was posted on the SHATRANJ rules page. I believe that a similar stalemate can be achieved here in 15 or 16 moves. See the diagram below.

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The White Rook previously captured a Bishop on (a6). After capturing a Knight on (e6) and moving the Duck to (g6), the game ends with a stalemate (and Black wins).


Mirodoly Chess 12x12. Members-Only Chess with Archer and with Sagittarius. A version of chess for a 12x12 board, the closest to the classic. (12x12) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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GoshawkChess. Variant of Capablanca Chess with two Goshawks per side replacing the Archbishop and Chancellor.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Thu, Sep 21, 2023 03:05 PM UTC:

Sorcerer Chess (2008) has (Wazir+Zebra) and (Ferz+Camel) pieces.

Charles Daniel also created Herculean Chess (2008) with the Ferz-Sorcerer (FZ), the Wazir-Sorcerer (WZ) and the Sorcerer Knight (NZ).


High Chess. Drawn games are instead won by the player whose King is closest to the centre.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Mon, Sep 4, 2023 07:43 PM UTC:Poor ★

My first thought was that the stalemated player is usually "Low" and will lose the game in fifty moves. My second thought was: What about my [2023-04-18] Comment to Grander Chess? A few minor changes resulted in the diagram below, where both Kings are equidistant from the centre.

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WHITE can play 1.Bc8 and BLACK is stalemated (but still wins the game).

Grant Sinclair writes: "Black’s height advantage, which makes Black High when both Kings are equidistant from the centre, has been designed to balance White’s first-move advantage." This statement is unconvincing. In fact, White’s advantage could be even greater in High Chess.


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David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Aug 6, 2023 05:39 PM UTC:

Regarding the Castellan (R4N) and the Abbot (B4N), Peter S. Hatch's Fantasy Grand Chess (2000) includes the Druid Army, with a Unicorn (R4FN) and a Bear (R4F). I cannot recall seeing a (B4WN) piece in any game.

Greg Strong's 16x12 variant Cataclysm (2007) includes the Tiger (R4F) and the Elephant (B4W). Also a Duke - moving three squares like a Queen. EDIT: the first "Q3 piece" here was the Maiden in R. Stephen Chafe's 38 squares variant PIRATES-HENGE-HO (1997). Jean-Louis Cazaux's 16x16 variant Terachess II (2020) has a Duchess - which is a Duke that can also jump two or three squares.


Midgard Chess. Midgard Chess has two unusual shortrange pieces, the War Elephant and the War Machine. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝David Paulowich wrote on Tue, May 30, 2023 05:22 PM UTC:

King, Knight and Bishop can checkmate a lone King in 33 moves or less. King, Knight and FAD can checkmate a lone King in 23 moves or less - according to the Checkmating Applet. A War Elephant should perform almost as well as a FAD when the board is nearly empty. Incidentally, this may be the last remaining page with the Elephant from an older version of "Galactic Graphics".

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1. Kf3 Ke1 2. Nc2+ Kf1 3. Ne3+ Kg1 4. Kg3 Kh1 5. Kh3 Kg1 6. WEd2 Kh1

7. Nf5 Kg1 8. WEe3+ Kh1 (or Kf1) 9. Ng3 mate - note that the lone King is in the "wrong corner", but the Knight and War Elephant still manage to checkmate. What if we played this endgame using Alice Chess rules? While move 8 is not actually a check, the game still ends in checkmate, with the pieces back on the original board (except for the White King).


Alice Chess. Classic Variant where pieces switch between two boards whenever they move. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Mon, May 22, 2023 09:45 PM UTC:

P = 1, N = 3, (WA) = 3.5, B = 5, (BW) = 7.5, R = 7.5, Q = 13.5 is just a guess at middle game piece values under Alice Chess rules. Recently I thought about adding some Chu Shogi pieces to this variant. Multiplying the numbers for N, B, R by 1.08 brings us very close to the Zillions estimates that Antoine Fourrière listed in this article. Zillions values a Queen in Alice Chess as slightly lower than the total of a Bishop and a Rook (just as it does for FIDE Chess). The relatively low value of a Knight is probably because it is "Alice colorbound" (light squares on one board and dark squares on the other board).

A simple Alice Chess endgame with all chessmen on the first board: WHITE: King (f1), Pawn (a6) BLACK: King (a8).

After 1. a6-A7 a8-B7 2. A7-a8 and promotes. The Black King was never on the right board to make a capture. Looks like a Pawn may be worth fifty percent more in the endgame. Variant Chess: Volume 6, Issue 42 is available on the web, with three games on pp 20-21 and the article "Paradoxical Endings in Alice Chess" on pp 28-29.


Not Strictly Convex Chess. Members-Only Chess game on a nonconvex tessellation. (Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Chessgi. Drop the pieces you take from your opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Tue, May 9, 2023 07:09 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

In the the diagram below White has five pieces on the board and a single Rook "in hand". All the other pieces belong to Black. Suppose White drops this Rook on (b2) and Black advances his Pawn to (c3). This "blockade stalemate" has resulted in a drawn game.

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ATTENTION EDITORS: This Chessgi problem also provides an answer to the Patricia Stalemate Puzzle. I recently constructed another stalemate position with fewer pieces than this one and would like to add a suitable diagram to the puzzle solution page.


Alice Chess. Classic Variant where pieces switch between two boards whenever they move. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Fri, May 5, 2023 07:40 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

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WHITE TO MOVE AND MATE IN EIGHT MOVES

If the Bishop was on (f4), placing all the pieces on the same board, this would be a simple mate in two moves. But I needed help from ChessV to solve the given problem. Apparently the trick is to move the White King from (b3) to (C2), effectively "wasting a tempo". Bishops cannot do this in Alice Chess - while the Bishop could travel from (F4) to (f4) in three moves, that is not actually the same square. ChessV 2.2 game record is given below.

Alice Chess
Player(White) = ChessV
Player(Black) = Human
FENStart = "16/16/16/16/2N10B2/1K14/16/1k14 w - - 0 1"
StaticExchangeEvaluation = false
Moves = {
F4g5 b1A1 b3C2 A1a2 g5H6 a2A1 c4D6 A1a2 H6c1 a2A1 D6e4 A1a2 e4C3 a2A1 c1B2
}
Result = 1-0 {White wins}


Featured Chess Variants. Chess Variants Featured in our Page Headers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Thu, May 4, 2023 04:51 AM UTC:

Hi Joe! At present several of my games are being torn apart and completely rebuilt. Maybe they could be considered around 2025. I have three Featured Chess nominations to make at this time.

The ShortRange Project made a big splash back in 2006. Putting 32 variants in a Zillions of Games 2.0 package will definitely attract attention. Since Joe keeps praising my closely related game Opulent Lemurian Shatranj, lets add that one to the list.

If the impact a game can potentially have on the general chess community is a factor, then Tiger Hunt (1996) is worthy of consideration. This reworking of a classic introductory game for children uses exactly one-half of a chess set, making it a great way to stretch your resources. Schools usually have a surplus of inexpensive boards printed on stiff paper - parents at home can make use of any checkers game lying about.

Saving the best for last, there is Ralph Betza's Sort of Almost Chess (1995). Playing every game with a White Chancellor and a Black Queen creates an entirely new chess experience. Pawn promotion for both sides would include both Queens and Chancellors. To continue my comment of [2023-02-25], we could always hold a contest to choose a more interesting name, like Carrera's Revenge. Chess has the reputation of being a game that you can learn to play in ten minutes and take a lifetime to learn how to play well. This is another game that deserves the same reputation.


Wide Chess. Chess with 2 types of non-colourbound elephants added on a 12x8 board using fast castling rules.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Apr 30, 2023 02:07 AM UTC:

VARIANT CHESS Volume 4, Issue 29 - Autumn 1998

On page 10 Paul V. Byway writes: "Once again it is seen that a bishop gains most from the wider board." He was discussing a drawn ending K+R+P against K+B in Modern Courier Chess (12x8 board). I had previously assumed that the Bishop would not improve much on a 12x8 board, being still limited to a maximum move of seven squares. But Byway's detailed analysis is more convincing than my own guesswork.

I still believe that the WA, FA and WDA are each worth three-quarters of a Pawn more than the original estimates given here. For this game: Knight = 3 = Work Elephant, Lead Elephant = 3.25 and Bishop = 3.75 The WA is a solid piece that continues to impress me. The FA is used in many chess variants - where it seems close to a Knight in value, perhaps a quarter-pawn less. The Lead Elephant may not attack any more squares than the FA, but the increase in mobility (also no longer colorbound) should be worth another half-pawn. Time will tell.


Rules of Chess: Pawns FAQ. Rules of promotion and movement of pawns explained.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Apr 30, 2023 01:06 AM UTC:

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White can achieve a draw in this position by promoting the pawn to a knight (with check) and taking the Black queen on his next turn. While the knight can eventually capture all three Black pawns, it is not capable of checkmate on its own. Any good computer will demonstrate that promoting the pawn to a queen loses against best play. Stockfish even begins by setting a little trap: 1. c8=Q Qg7 and if 2. Kxb4 Qb2 checkmate (see the diagram below).

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L. Fun contest: Help us create a new chess variant by committee.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Apr 23, 2023 08:53 PM UTC:

Good catch, Christine. Also, here is something I wrote [2008-11-01] on George Duke's NextChess2 thread:

Regarding some recent comments: 'Super Chess' (two words) is part of a proprietary name used on the web page Cardinal Super Chess, which states: 'Because of the Cardinals' unique movement, a combination of a knight and a bishop, it gathers the initiative into one sweeping action.' This naturally leads to the mistaken conclusion that it is the usual B+N piece. But the second web page given for this commercial variant shows the move to be a non-leaping Camel. I once tested the piece on the applet provided and saw the program move a Bishop to block my Cardinal check.

Taking a trip on the WayBack Machine, I find the alternate name CSChess(c) - wouldn't a trademark make more sense than a copyright? Sad to say, the archived web pages have neither a movement diagram nor a playing applet.


AvantGarde Chess ZIP file. A font-named variant that adds a Centaur and a Man to the standard setup.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Apr 23, 2023 07:13 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

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WHITE CENTAUR and dots marking the "safe squares" for a BLACK KING.

This game is a fine example of developing a single theme. One way of measuring the Centaur's strength is to ask the question: "Where can I place my King on the board and still be safe from a check by the Centaur next move?" Not many squares. Note: if this board had a "zero row", then its dot pattern would be the same as the one on the 8th row.


Not-Particularly-New Chess. A fairly restrainted variant on a 9x8 board, with Cardinals, Unicorns and Jesters. (9x8, Cells: 72) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Apr 23, 2023 03:06 PM UTC:

I have copied a previous version of the comments page below, with breaks (***) added.

Peter Aronson signs his comments "PBA", Ralph Betza signs his comments "gnohmon" and I forgot to sign on July 5th.

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5 Jul 2001	None	Minimal Not-Particularly-New Chess can be turned into Chess with Not-Particularly-Different Armies. Replace the White Queen with an Amazon (Q+N)and the Black Rook on the a-file with a Marshall (R+N). Then switch the Black Queen with the remaining Rook. The setup becomes White: RNBAKCNBR and Black: MNBRKCNBQ, where C=Cardinal (B+N). Pawns promote to R,N,B,A,C,M,Q of the same color. I believe Black has a small material advantage in this game, probably enough to cancel White's advantage of moving first. The rather strange setup of Knights and Bishops goes back to the original version of Chancellor Chess (Ben Foster, 1889). Back in 1999 I invented Paulowich's Amazon Chess on the 8x8 board. See: http://www.chessvariants.com/java/variants/pamazon.html for a Pixelpusher applet.
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25 Jun 2001	None	A new solution to the unguarded Pawn has been added as a subvariant, where the Unicorn's leap is considered one step diagonally, followed by one step orthogonally outward, and opposing pieces on the diagonal portion are captured, while friendly ones are leapt over. This is perhaps a bit hokey, but gets the job done. This Guarding Unicorns subvariant has been added to the ZRF, along with a Designer's Choice subvariant combining the Guarding Unicorns and the King's Pawn is a Berolina Pawn subvariants.
PBA
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4 Jun 2001	None	
Is sticking the NB on the end of the Paulowich lineup too concentrating? It could be, I guess. It means that as soon as you develop those pieces, that end of your array will be naked.
Yes, I got to like the idea of the Berolina P in the middle of the 9-wide board more and more as I thought about it after posting. It should work for all odd-numbered widths.
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gnohmon
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1 Jun 2001	None	No Mad Elephants in this game, this is supposed to be a restrained variant. Really. Well, mostly. But don't worry, there are lots of Elephants in a project in progress.
I'm not sure about the Minimal NPN Paulowich Chess array -- is putting the Queen and Cardinal/Archbishop right next to each other in the corner kind of concentrating the heavy pieces a bit?
Making the center Pawn a Berolina Pawn . . . Hm. That's an interesting idea. I think I'll add it as a subvariant, and to the ZRF and play around with it a bit.
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1 Jun 2001	Good	
and add an Archbishop at the right, oops.
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gnohmon
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1 Jun 2001	Good	
I like the use of the Jester, whose niftiness was the redeeming grace for the poor guy who got so roundly blasted for his tone.
Of course, the Jester could be some other piece (an alfil which can become an angry pachyderm?)
If you start with the Paulowich lineup (CNBRKBNCQ) (C == Chancellor) and add an Archbishop at the left, you get Minimal NPN Paulowich Chess. This pleases because there is, like Tutti-Frutti Chess, one of each.
I would like the center Pawn to be a Berolina Pawn. In front of the K, its move exposes; from the center, its move decentralizes; the choice of moving right or left may be critical.
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gnohmon
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1 Jun 2001	None	Peter says,"Many of designers of these games are concerned with amount of draws that occur in FIDE Chess, and the degree to which memorized openings can dominate the game." I notice that Drawless Chess simply outlaws draws. Has anyone tried explicitly outlawing known openings? (Say, give each player an encyclopedia of known chess openings. If a player duplicates one of those openings, the opponent may require those moves to be undone. Or, specify that each player only use openings from a small predetermined menu)
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1 Jun 2001	None	David, in fact my name choice for this variant was influenced by "Chess on a Longer Board with a Few Pieces Added" -- it has a sort of cool, slightly ironic sound that appeals to me.
PBA
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1 Jun 2001	Good	This is weird: a couple of days ago, I came up with a variant that was exactly the same as your 'Minimal Not-Particularly-New Chess'!
Anyway, I like your use of the Unicorn piece to solve the Bishops being on the same color problem. Another, more radical solution would be to replace the Unicorn with a Bishop, and allow Bishops a non-capturing Wazir move for their first move. Then the player could decide if they want their Bishops to be on the same color squares, and all pawns would be covered.
--D. Howe
PS. I like the name you chose. Where you influenced by my "Chess on a Longer Board with a Few Pieces Added"? :)
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Iss Jetan. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Apr 21, 2023 06:26 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

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MOVEMENT DIAGRAM - White Chained Padwar (Elephant icon) and Black Chained Warrior (War Machine icon)

On an empty board a Warrior will attack the same squares as a Kylin - a Chu Shogi piece currently lacking a PIECECLOPEDIA entry. A Padwar attempts to reach the same squares as an Alibaba - the diagram shows a Black Padwar blocking the (e5) square from the White Padwar. Likewise, the Black Padwar is blocked from attacking the (b2) square.

The Chained Padwar in this game is called an (ordinary) Elephant in Shatranj Kamil X. Last week I added a comment there showing how a Knight and two Elephants can checkmate a lone King.


Grander Chess. A variant of Christian Freeling's Grand Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Tue, Apr 18, 2023 03:55 AM UTC:

This 1999 stalemate rule was used a year later in Peter Hatch's Fantasy Grand Chess. Now I have no objection to carefully defined Stalemate Victory conditions. I just finished adding a new diagram to the Notes section of my old game Jumping Knights Chess, which has some very strange stalemate wins. While reading the Grand Chess page, I noticed the following comment by Johnny Luken [2015-04-13].

"Fair points, but I'm really talking about more extreme cases.

Is a stalemated king vs 3 queens a legitimate draw? I don't so.

The only counterargument to that is "gee well the other player shouldn't so sloppy as to let the king be stalemated." But to me thats a moot point. Dominant player shouldn't be obligated to give the weaker player a legal move."

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White Bishop to (c1) is a legal move in a legal position. Time for people to stop throwing words at this (perceived) problem and simply choose one of three possible outcomes here: "1-0" or "1/2-1/2" or "0-1". Incidentally, if this was a position in a Grand Chess game, the Black Pawn would still be outside its promotion zone.

[EDIT 2023-09-04] Positions like this one need to be studied before inventing new rules for chess. I just finished posting a Comment to High Chess, with a similar diagram.


Shatranj Kamil X. Shatranj Kamil, with new pieces from Jetan, Shogi and Xiangqi. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Apr 14, 2023 08:09 PM UTC:

Nowadays I am concentrating on games where stalemate is a draw and checkmate is required for victory. We know that a Bishop and a Knight are sufficient mating material. We also know that the lone King must first be chased to one of the two corners that this Bishop is capable of attacking. Today I am going to replace the Bishop with a pair of Elephants from Shatranj Kamil X - moving like the Padwar in Jetan - as strictly interpreted.

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WHITE: King (c5), Elephants (g5, h6), Knight (h8) BLACK: King (e8)

WHITE mates in 12 moves:

1. Kc6 Kd8 2. Nf7+ Kc8 3. Ee5 Kb8 4. Ec5 K moves 5. Ef6 Kb8

6. Ne5 K moves 7.Kb6 Kb8 8. Ka6 K moves 9. Ea7 Kb8 10. Nd7+ K moves 11. Nb6+ Kb8 12. Ed6 mate.

NOTES: If 2... Ke8 3.Nd6+ Kd8 4. Ef8 mate. If the Elephants are replaced by (AmD) from Shatranj Kamil (64) - then 4. Ef6 mates and the main line is two moves longer (changes starting with move six below).

6. Ng5 K moves 7. Nh7 Kb8 8. Nf8 K moves 9.Kb6 Kb8 10. Ee5 K moves 11. Ka6 Kb8

Observe how the last ten moves have shifted every piece two squares to White's left.

12. Nd7+ K moves 13. Nb6+ Kb8 14. Ed6 mate.

MORE NOTES: When a lone King is trapped on the edge of the board - - then King, Knight and a pair of Elephants (on the same color squares, a Ferz move apart) can force checkmate, even if they happen to chase the King to the "wrong corner". I will let the computers decide if these four pieces are sufficient mating material on 8x8 or 9x9 or 10x10 boards, no matter where the lone King starts.


Ryugi. 10x10 variant with Kirins, Marshalls, and Dragons, the latter which can move as a Bishop or as a Nightrider.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Apr 14, 2023 01:33 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

The Dragon has an impressive 13x13 movement diagram on this page.

1. d3 Db6 2. Md2 Dxe3 is the fastest mate in Ryugi.

1. Nd4 c7 2. Nc6 Ne7 3. Nd8 does it with a Knight.


Wide Chess. Chess with 2 types of non-colourbound elephants added on a 12x8 board using fast castling rules.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Tue, Apr 11, 2023 04:40 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

1. h3 g5 2. Kh2 Ll6 3.Ki3 Qj4 is a very foolish mate. If the type font is confusing, Black's second move is "ell-ell-six".

While the stated NBRQ values are suitable for a 10x10 board, the Bishop simply cannot attack as many squares on a 12x8 board. Bishop = 3.50 and Queen = 10 seem more appropriate for this game. I reserve judgement on the Elephants for the time being - currently working on a new game with "Wafflephants" on 12 columns.


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