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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 Mon, Nov 16, 2009 12:11 AM UTC:

Alice Chess 6x6  (early announcement)
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
  |   |:::|   |:::|   |:::| 6 | n |:b:| q |:k:| b |:n:|
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
  |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   | 5 |:::| r |:::| p |:p:| p |
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
  |   |:::|   |:::|   |:::| 4 | p |:p:| p |:::|   |:::|
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
  |:::|   |:::| P |:P:| P | 3 |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
  | P |:P:| P |:::| R |:::| 2 |   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
  |:N:| B |:K:| Q |:B:| N | 1 |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |
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  a   b   c   d   e   f       A   B   C   D   E   F 
  Dropping two pawns and a rook from each side leads to a neat little chess variant
  on a pair of 6x6 boards.  Pawns move one square only.  No castling.  Sample game: 
  1.P a2-a3  p B4-A3
  2.B e1-c3  p a3-b2
  3.B C3-B2  p C4-C3??
  4.B b2-a3 checkmate!

Alice Chess on a Courier Board [February 2023 proposal]

There is an old Game Courier Preset for Smaller Alice Chess on 32 squares. The two boards fit inside a standard 8x8 board. Why not expand my earlier game to a pair of narrow 6x8 boards, fitting inside a 12x8 Courier Chess board? The fortunate few owning such a board could set up postal games on it. While lacking the time and energy to playtest this game, I can at least leave you with the shortest Fool's Mate of any chess variant.

1. e3-e4-k4, Bishop h8-l4-f4 mate. (DIAGRAM ABOVE)