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Jester Chess. Large variant, with four new pieces including Jester that imitates opponents last type of move. (10x11, Cells: 110) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]'JKL,LargeCV': Brown's own Centennial Chess scales back board to decimal and borrows quadra-pawn Steward and M.Lion from Havel's Jester Chess, six yrs. uncommented. 10 piece-types, of which five promote uniquely, only Pawn doing so to an array unit(Steward); so that makes 14 piece-types possible. Jester originally mimics method of movement of last opponent's piece moved. Short-range Archer moves without capturing or captures without moving. It is two moves per turn until one's first capture, a rule which could benefit some other large chesses. This would be more fun, but Centennial's fewer features a more playable-strategy CV.
This looks fun but who has the time? The only GC log was abandoned before completion. Since we are using Havel's Jester 1999(and Brown's Centennial 100 sqs.) for comparison of Very Large CVs, this recalls the fine novelty of Jester, Quadra-Pawn, and Archer together. Somehow here so many as 110 squares are an exigency to accomodate the specific mix, and they must have gone back and forth between the piece-types and size to perfect it. Piece values to the tenths seem like serious effort, taking account of that board size. The five different promotion variations(Shogi-like) are an overcomplication, and Brown simplified with slightly later Centennial, their semi-collaboration justifying extensive borrowing. The 'inadvertent' Murray Lion's appearing so frequently, as here, may carry a message: who can rule out random(computer?) piece creation as a possibility? Two pieces per move until capturing could be a good standard for Very Large category. These two Comments three yrs. apart intentionally complement so not to repeat.
Am I right to assume that the archer's forward two square movement is lame? Or can it leap?
I Just had some wooden chessmen :muray lion, archer, jester...
fabricated to play jester chess with some friends.
Very neat, vintage & simple stauton style thanks to my creativity & a very skillful french cabinetmaker.
who can ask for more?
If anybody out there wants or needs some inspiration for chessmen design, i can send you some fabulous pics!
just email me at gericho_wax@yahoo.com
This game is gonna be so much fun with wooden pieces
In some time, this unique chess set is gonna worth a whole lot!!!
I HAVE QUESTION for Thomas Havel or anybody out there who can give me a clear answer: when the creator of this CV describes the archer, he says it "captures on the 3 forward-ajacent squares" what does he refer to? for example when archer is on c3: can it capture on c4-c5-c6?? or IS IT b4-c4-d4?? Thanks for reading this post and for answering
3 forward-adjacent squares means from c3 it would be b4, c4 and d4.
Hello H.G. Muller whoever you are... please forward this message in case anybody out there knows this person...I tried to send H.G Muller some pics of the Jester Chessmen but there seems to be a problem with his email, i keep recieving mail failure status mails.. So please, give me another email adress that works so we can finally communicate!! Regards
Jester mimics method of movement of last opponent's piece moved. Short-range Archer moves without capturing or captures without moving. It is two moves per turn until one's first capture, a rule which could benefit some other large chesses.
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