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Contest to design a 10-chess variant. Cebrating 10 years of Chess Variant Pages with a contest to design a chess variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Is it just me or is this contest in a coma?
I have one as well, but have used it so much that the low-quality included cardboard board is starting to fall apart. Not that I'm selling it, of course -- just be wary you may have to find someplace that will make custom gameboards to replace yours, if you find one used. (The pieces, on the other hand, are lovely. Quite heavy, plastic, and felt-bottomed. Very sturdy.) What's all this about selling the property rights? Hopefully someone interested in selling high-quality sets will purchase it -- in my opinion, Omega Chess is one of the best variants in existence!
Contest to design a 10-chess variant. Cebrating 10 years of Chess Variant Pages with a contest to design a chess variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]What's going on, anyway? There's been no announcement of a second round of voting.
Opulent Chess. A derivative of Grand Chess with additional jumping pieces (Lion and Wizard). (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]'Ostentatious Chess' sounds like a good name for an upcoming submission of mine. ;)
Contest to design a 10-chess variant. Cebrating 10 years of Chess Variant Pages with a contest to design a chess variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The links to Taratibu and veSQuj seem to be missing. Furthermore, the link to Shatranj Kamil 64 should point to http://www.chessvariants.org/contests/10/shatranjkamil64.html instead of where it does now.
Voting on the contest to design a 10-chess variant. Voting rules and grouping of the games in four sets.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]When attempting to use one of the voting pages, I get a screenfull of the following: Warning: main(/home/chessvar/public_html/cgi-bin/rankedpoll/runpoll.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/chessva/public_html/contests/10/poll1-A.php on line 26 Warning: main(/home/chessvar/public_html/cgi-bin/rankedpoll/runpoll.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/chessva/public_html/contests/10/poll1-A.php on line 26 Warning: main(): Failed opening '/home/chessvar/public_html/cgi-bin/rankedpoll/runpoll.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/chessva/public_html/contests/10/poll1-A.php on line 26 Perhaps this should be fixed.
Xiangqi: Chinese Chess. Links and rules for Chinese Chess (Xiangqi). (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Roberto, I'd like to point out that as of right now, when one Googles 'chessvariants,' the first related page that comes up under the main listing is this Xiang-Qi page. If that isn't a good indicator of this game's popularity variant-wise, if not game-wise in general, I don't know what is. (Incidentally, a search for 'xiangqi' gives this page second in the list, and a search for 'xiang-qi' or 'chinese chess' gives it first.)
Voting on the contest to design a 10-chess variant. Voting rules and grouping of the games in four sets.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]It may be helpful on each of the automated voting pages to have 'See Also:' links only to the games in that particular group.
Caliph. compound of Bishop and Camel.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating] Canvasser. Compound of Rook and Camel.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Shogi With Pokémons. Pokemons with special powers are added to an otherwise normal shogi board. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Not to be nitpicky, but the plural of Pokémon is Pokémon. 'Pokémons' sounds rather odd, to me anyways. *has a brother who used to watch the cartoon all the time*
Chess with Promoters. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Promoter promotion is prohibited? Perfect. I personally prefer the prohibition of prehension of pieces by Promoters, as it places the promoters in a pacifistic position where their perilous promoting power is best placed in proximity to pieces of your own. Why pick off pieces when your position is productive for the other player?
Can Promoters capture? And can Promoters promote? If so, does a Promoter that promotes a Promoter which previously promoted pieces prolifically pay a pretty penny? Perhaps a pound? Perhaps in practice Promoter promotion proliferates profusely, as the Promoters are positioned in proximity preceeding each play's premiere.
Yonin Shogi. 4-handed Shogi variant. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Page updated. Ed, could you please provide your last name so you can be properly credited?
The comment directly below this one is mine. Oops.
Ryu Shogi. Large modern shogi variant. (7x12, Cells: 84) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Thanks for the offer! I'll email you ASAP. No, I don't have the Yonin page up -- in honesty, I haven't even started it yet. I may upload a quickie version using the new form, but don't expect it to be all that great. (It'll be an English resource, though, which is what matters, and besides, I can edit it later!)
Hey Greg, you lost your bet. ;) I'm 19. Sorry to be so late, computer troubles. Wow, y'all are geezers. :P
I'm just wondering, for those of you who consider yourselves active members here, how old are you? We all know Hans is in his 40s, but that's all. What kind of age range is this group in as a whole?
Échecs De L'Escalier. A double Capablanca-type variant with slightly enhanced Pawns. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I had an idea very similar to this one ages ago but completely forgot about it! Good to see it being fleshed out.
Salmon P. Chess. Huge three-dimensional game celebrating 10 years chess variant pages. (10x(), Cells: 7500) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I believe that what Mr. Nalls is getting at is that it almost seems that someone is trying to get SPC to do well in the contest by giving it lots of Excellents under different names. Admittedly, I had been wondering myself. I'm not pointing any fingers right now, but whoever it is seems to be getting a little silly. Dead men, after all, do not have internet access.
Countdown. Ten player game with sf-theme. (10x(), Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]In the Credits, Etc. section, the 2 in '102' and the 3 in '103' should be superscripts.
Proximity Chess. Players must move pieces nearest to the arrival square of the last piece moved. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I would think that it's based on Cartesian distance, as in Maximummer Chess.
Yagbap. A decimal Chess/Amazons hybrid. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Oops. Yes, the board is 10 by 10, although the document itself does not reflect that.
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