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Hobbit Chess A game information page

. Two variants, 8x8 and 9x9, using hobbits as superpawns.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Peter Aronson wrote on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 06:56 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

This is a nice idea, but the pieces you call Hobbits have been around for a while. For example, John Williams Brown called them Stewards, and used them in <a href='../large.dir/contest/cenchess.html'>Centennial Chess</a>; however, this is a nice use of them. <p> As for the 9x9 game, I notice that all four Bishops are on White. Now, some people like it like that -- consider Gabriel Maura's game of <a href='../large.dir/modern.html'>Modern Chess</a> which also has four Bishops on the same color -- but you still might want to consider something like Carlos Cetina's <a href='../varvar.dir/bcr.html'>Bishop's Conversion Rule</a>, when one Bishop has to change color on its first move.

Glenn Overby II wrote on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 08:31 PM UTC:

I need to write a ZRF for both of these, I think, as they look like fun.

George Duke wrote on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 07:21 PM UTC:

Goddesschess links back to CVPage this week, 
http://www.goddesschess.com/whatsnew/whatsnew.html, for George Boeree's Hobbit Chess. Aronson points out in the other comment here 7 years ago that Centennial's Quadra-Pawn is the same prior version as this Hobbit Pawn.
http://chessvariants.org/usualeq.dir/msaprobl.html

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