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Here is a Modern Chess preset that doesn't enforce the rules:
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DModern+Chess%26settings%3DAlfaerie2

Antoine,

The Preset you previously created has a bug in the Bishop adjustment. If a Bishop moves first (not adjusted), the 2nd Bishop is not allowed to adjust (which it should!)

Can you check it? 

Thanks.

Jose

Interesting use of the BN piece type combo in a variant.

This may be a question with an obvious answer, but I was wondering if either side can commit to playing the whole game with two bishops on the same coloured squares (not including any promotions to a bishop). As there is nothing I can see that's against this possibility in the rules, I'm assuming it's allowed.

Kevin,

I have a Modern Chess set, so I checked the official rules. They state that the game be played as it is set up. That is, one player has two bishops on white, the other had two bishops on black. The author seems to think this is better. The inventor permits, with prior agreement of both players before the start of the game, the "Adjustment of the Bishop".  Each player may swap one bishop with either neighboring piece, providing neither has moved.  This expressly forbidden in the official rules.

Hi.

i believe the personal invitation feature for game courier simply hasn't been working for some time now.

Only public invites are working. 

Nonetheless: Thanks for all your great work on the website, Fergus. 

Does anyone now if there still is a world federation of modern chess?

According to Pritchard's Encyclopedia, it was dissolved in 1984.  I tried some Google searches, English and Spanish, and didn't come up with anything.  Apparently, like many variants, it did died out once the inventor was no longer promoting it.

It has been brought to my attention that the name of the author of this game is not correct. The full name is Gabriel Vicente Maura. From the examination of several sources, it appears that Gabriel is the first name and Vicente Maura is the family name. As it is usual in hispanic mode, Vicente is the father's name and Maura is the mother's name. Vicente also being an usual first name, a confusion has arisen.

In his Spanish book "Evolucion del ajedrez, 40 siglos" (Madrid, 1980), the prologue mentions "esta obra de Gabriel Vicente Maura", then simply "este libro de Vicente Maura", "el labor de Vicente Maura". In the acknowledgements, the author thanks his son, Carlos Gabriel Vicente Vega. He is also named his son as Carlos Vicente Vega at several instances in the book. On p212, the author mentions his niece, Marissel Velazquez Vicente.

From all this, it is certain that Vicente is not the second given name of the author, but his main last name, the one inherited from his father. The inventor of Modern Chess is Gabriel VICENTE MAURA, Mr. VICENTE.

I don't think that dark-squared bishops are a problem here. On the contrary, it is rather something that makes this variant interesting, considering the fact that a bishop is stronger than a knight on large boards. It would be great if someone could actually calculate which one is actually more valuable here. This game is intended to represent chess in a modern condition, apart from the introduction of the minister, where the influence of religious institutions, represented by bishops, is diminished, and it is logical that the other part of the board is no longer under their control.

Brilliant analysis and subsequent position, Max Koval. However, could it not also be consonant with contemporary emphasis upon cults and conspiracies, the the bishop adjustment rule, which would render control along "theistic" or spiritual lines, to all of the white squares upon the board might not also represent the current world emphasis upon a Spirituality 2.0 or next-generation spirituality which would actually require an expenditure of energy to re-emphasize the importance of the spiritual or numinous in a secular world? And that this expenditure of energy would be masterfully represented by a player sacrificing momentum (in the form of one 'castling' like maneuver to switch one of the black bishops to white? Additionally, it has been many years since I have read the original thesis, and I was quite young, at the time, but... is it possible to perform a Bishop switch maneuver TWICE? And thus have a player be able to have TWO bishops operating along white squares? This is an intriguing perspective and again, thank you for the BRILLIANT and mind-expanding ideations!

@SYG: "is it possible to perform a Bishop switch maneuver TWICE? ". The answer is in the short text: "The player would have four ways to do the adjustment, but he is only allowed to do it one time throughout the game".