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Buzzy Bees. Members-Only Bees at war on a hexagonal grid. (Cells: 127) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Alfaerie SVG Piece Graphics. The Alfaerie set of piece graphics in scalable SVG format.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Apr 7 03:02 PM EDT in reply to Bob Greenwade from 02:56 PM:

Ski-ski such as [H?fR]

It'd depend somewhat on what the piece is called.

That's not clear either


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Apr 7 02:44 PM EDT in reply to Bob Greenwade from 01:45 PM:

I'm trying to avoid skis so I can also include ski-ski-pieces. Currently my best idea is two circles, one black and the other empty.

Another thing I'm trying to think of is how to represent visually KSNTCZ


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Apr 7 01:00 PM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from Fri Apr 5 02:10 AM:

I have some that I think are ok, but one thing I want is ski pieces and I haven't thought of a really satisfactory way to do those


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Thu, Apr 4 07:21 PM EDT:

If I make some svg pieces would it be possible to get them added to this set?


Hundred Acre Chess. Chess based on Winnie-the-Pooh. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Wed, Apr 3 03:52 PM EDT:Good ★★★★

This is a very unusual variant. It appears to work despite the seemingly excessively jumpy Owl. The game is very sharp, which I like. The donkey's feel mostly useless, but that might fit the theme? I wanted to get it working with ChessV but couldn't.

I'm rating it Good (why is there no Average rating option, by the way?) because I like the creativity and emphasis on diagonals.


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Daniel Zacharias wrote on Wed, Apr 3 02:00 PM EDT in reply to Bob Greenwade from 01:37 PM:

if that's what you want I think you could remove the third W move so it would just be mcasamzWmcacsamzW


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Wed, Apr 3 01:10 PM EDT in reply to Bob Greenwade from 12:18 PM:

Does this work like you wanted?

mcadsaumzWmcacsamzWmasamzW


Centaur. Moves as Knight or Man. AKA Crowned Knight.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Tue, Apr 2 02:22 PM EDT:

For representing this piece, why not do something similar to this?

In 3D it could be a regular knight except with an eight pointed collar or base to indicate the extra moves.


Bob Greenwade's SVG Library. Private The SVG files used in Bob's library of pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Alfaerie SVG Piece Graphics. The Alfaerie set of piece graphics in scalable SVG format.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Mon, Apr 1 02:35 PM EDT:

The chinesepawn in alfaeriePNG appears to be missing part of its outline


Kamikaze Mortal Shogi. Send your Kamikazes on suicide missions in this Shogi variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Mar 31 08:28 PM EDT:

In my current game I am trying to make a move to the promotion zone but decline promotion, but it doesn't work. I keep seeing the promotion options as long as I choose to not promote.


Featured Chess Variants. Chess Variants Featured in our Page Headers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Mar 31 03:49 PM EDT:

I'll nominate Ajax Chess.


Asymmetric Chess. Chess with alternative units but classical types and mechanics. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Mar 31 03:31 PM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from 03:09 PM:

Whatever it is, it's not on my end. I've cleared the cache multiple times, tried different browsers and a different device even, and always see the white knightferz except with ?nocache=true (when viewing the image directly)


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Mar 31 12:22 PM EDT in reply to Bob Greenwade from 11:51 AM:

ok, that does fix it


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sun, Mar 31 11:44 AM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from Sat Mar 30 06:17 PM:

This still is white for me.


FOOD FIGHT. Besides a Royal Chef, all the pieces are named after food items. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sat, Mar 30 11:06 PM EDT:

somehow it says

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Neohex. (Updated!) Chess variant on irregular hexagons. (Cells: 60) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sat, Mar 30 06:20 PM EDT:

I agree that it's hard to understand with the board distorted so much


Fairy-Max: an AI for playing user-defined Chess variants. A chess engine configurable for playing a wide variety of chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sat, Mar 30 04:30 PM EDT:

Is the Sissa possible in fairy-max?


Asymmetric Chess. Chess with alternative units but classical types and mechanics. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sat, Mar 30 03:19 PM EDT:

the ferz knight in this interactive diagram is wrongly colored for black


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Daniel Zacharias wrote on Sat, Mar 30 10:47 AM EDT in reply to Bob Greenwade from 10:38 AM:

Couldn't the Bypass use smaller circles?


Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Mar 29 02:58 PM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from 01:26 PM:

well it works now so I guess I was doing something wrong


Daniel Zacharias wrote on Fri, Mar 29 12:30 PM EDT:

Is the Paste Diagram description here: input broken?


Hundred Acre Chess. Members-Only Game Courier preset for Hundred Acre Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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