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Dr. Who Chess. Variant based on the popular TV seiries.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Ah yes, of course. The tardis moves in addition to regular pieces. Very good. Thank you.
Can Dr. Who capture a piece as he moves out of the Tardis?
When a piece gets kicked out of the Tardis, where does it get kicked out to?
In my opinion, the current tournament in Dortmund spotlights the need for change. Out of 16 games so far, only two have been decisive. 14 out of 16 games so far have resulted in draws. Unfortunately, since Dortmund is only a single round robin and not a double round robin, a point award system such as the one I have proposed (which awarded more points for wins with Black than with White), would not be equitable.
Feedback to the Chess Variant Pages - How to contactus. Including information on editors and associate authors of the website.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Yes, but only if you also get out of check at the same time.
Game Courier Logs. View the logs of games played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Roswell Chess. A game not meant for humans. Uses alien hieroglyphic pieces based on an alleged 1947 Roswell NM incident. (7x10, Cells: 70) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Why did ______ create this ___ if it's not even considered _________ by _____? Well done, ____! ;-)
Poll number Preference Poll for Third Game Courier Tournament. Sign up for the 3rd Game Courier tournament by voting in this poll.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]When will the third game courier tournament actually begin?
Five Tigers Chess. Variant of Chinese Chess. Red can make two pawn moves per turn but.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]These java games on this site are primarily intended to give a flavor of the game and not programmed to be strong.
Nested Chess. A variant hiding another on its diagonals. (15x15, Cells: 141) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Charles,
looks intriguing and worthy of further investigation.
A technical point, if I may? The Dabbabante actually appears to be different from the closely related Dabbabah rider.
I presume V.R. Parton invented the Dabbabante for his Dabbabante Chess. Here is a description of the piece from that page:
Dabbabanate Chess
'It is tempting to consider the Dabbabante a sort of Dabbabah-Rider (that is, a piece that can make repeated leaps of two squares orthogonally in the same direction as long as all the squares landed on but possible the last, are empty), but it isn't, really. Instead, the Dabbabante is a Super Dabbabah, able not only to leap (0,2), but (0,4), (0,6) and (0,8) as well. It is leaper, not a rider.'
Edited in 8-22: In other words, I believe it's a mistake to refer to the dabbabah rider and dabbabante as equivalent.
Secutor Chess
. Introducing the Secutor piece, and new collision-capture, on a Gustavian board (zrf available).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Mats, I'm generally thankful for the work you do here, you know that. Keep up the good work.
From this match, we must hope for a decisive result, as a tie will divert to speed games. The infamy of it: Speed games to decide a world championship! How 'democratic.' Shame it is only a 12 game match as this goes against tradition of longer world championship match games. Good that the match is taking place at all, unfortunately under FIDE auspices. FIDE under Ilyumzhinov seems incapable of finding either a format or set of qualifiers worthy of an event of this magnitude. It will be a very exciting match, I think, and it is very hard to pick a winner. I will predict Kramnik as winner, though it pains me to think that Topalov, with his recent winning chess, might not become legitimate heir to Kasparov.
Topalov plays Cochrane Gambit against Kramnik in Linares
'After 28. Rc6 Qh5 29. Qxa6, Topalov could win a fourth pawn for the Knight and in case of a check of the Black Queen to d1 come back with his Queen to f1.'
True?
Due to his peculiar weakness for getting beaten by Kramnik, Kasparov may be unusually biased.
King's Reincarnation. Captured Kings return to the board, but at a price. 2 versions of play. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Powerful pieces are incredibly weakened when they become royal, especially since they can't move through check. It's worth experiencing. In Fergus Duniho's British Chess, a queen is the royal piece.
Taikyoku Shogi. Extremely large shogi variant. (36x36, Cells: 1296) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Oh, boy, you are going to make a lot of people happy with this. Thanks so much for sharing. Just what I've been looking for! Awesome!
Francois Tremblay writes:
I was wondering if you could help me? I seem to remember a variant where you accumulate points by having pieces on center squares, and won if you had the most points after a certain number of turns. I did a search for 'points', but I didn't find it. I also looked through the 'other variants' list and the 'winning in a different way' list, but didn't find it.
Would you [anyone] have any rememberance of it? Thanks!
They should give Kramnik back the forfeited point.
Good news that Kramnik is willing to play even having forfeited the point.
Excellent point, Andy. To win and leave an unambiguous impression as champion, Topalov will still have to win at least three games.
Just two more games left and in order to be accepted as legitimate world chess champion, Topalov will have to win both of them. Kramnik, on the other hand, can either draw both and win the rapids or win just one and draw one and he will be accepted as not only legitimate world chess champion, but also the champion preferred in the eyes of the professional chess community. Prior to the toilet scandal, Topalov would have been preferred.
At this point, given the fact that Kramnik has won three games and Topalov only two, the only honorable way to proceed will be for Game 5 to be played, unless Kramnik wins the twelfth and final game. Kramnik proposes as much in his letter where he threatens to sue FIDE:
' 5. As a sign of good will Mr Kramnik once again requests FIDE to arrange for game five to be played out on the board immediately after game 12. This in our opinion is the only way to alleviate the personal, sporting, judicial and ethical injuries that have been incurred by Mr Kramnik.'
Bravo. Well said. That's exactly what the 2007 tournament should be: A way to determine a challenger. Not a way to determine the world chess champion. Which is the way it is set up now. Right? Really, it doesn't make sense to call this a reunification match if the only 'reward' besides monetary is that it's just a candidates match to qualify for the 2007 world chess championship tournament. RIDICULOUS!!!! The loser of this tournament, if Topalov, should qualify to play in the 2007 round robin and the winner of that should then play Kramnik for the world chess champion title.
If Anand is greatest, why isn't he highest rated?
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