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Territorial Chess. Members-Only "Territorial Chess," a revolutionary fusion of two timeless strategic games: Chess and Go. (21x21, Cells: 441) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Hundred Acre Chess. Private Game Courier preset for Hundred Acre Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Patchanka. (Updated!) Decimal variant with several bi-compound pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Mar 28 06:21 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 06:19 PM:

If I had a dollar for every mistake of that quality or greater that I've made in my life, I wouldn't need to buy a Powerball ticket. ;)


💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Thu, Mar 28 06:19 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 04:52 PM:

@Bob: oh many thanks. I was blind. I had put a squirrel instead. Now corrected, ;=)


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Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Mar 28 05:43 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Wed Mar 27 05:16 PM:

What I know is that Fairy chess is a term that we use in // to chess variant or non orthodox chess, etc. It doesn't mean a chess with fairies. I know plenty chess variants, I know none with fairies.

As a fairy, it's a symbolic representation of fairy chess in general, not a literal representation of a particular fairy piece. As a princess, though, it is a literal representation of a particular fairy piece, and the fairy wings help indicate that this is the princess of fairy chess rather than the princess of Jetan or some other game with a princess. They also serve the purpose of distinguishing this piece from a queen, since the pieces flanking the logo should resemble usual Chess pieces without being mistaken for them.

Fairies or princesses, I'm not going to spend time to discuss Disney movies. Everyone has got what I meant, the rough idea. When my daughter was <8 years she was playing with little fairies or princesses some wings.

One thing I appreciate about this logo is how it balances the masculine and the feminine. The dragon horse is fiercely masculine, and the princess is gently feminine in a way that helps tame the ferocity of the dragon horse. While it is natural for little girls to be more into feminine things like princesses and fairies than boys are, it is also natural for men to appreciate what is feminine. It has become a cliche for both knights and dragons to be into princesses, and John Carter, a masculine pulp fiction hero, is known for his devotion to Dejah Thoris, a princess of Mars. As a straight male, I find that femininity is something I like about women, and it is something I want to see in the portrayal of a female Chess variant piece. Also, perhaps because I grew up with Brian Froud's Faeries book, I have long had an appreciation for fairies that has nothing to do with Tinkerbell. Disney may do what it can to capitalize on the love little girls have for fairies and princesses, but it does not have a monopoly on either concept, and I have not drawn on Disney representations to create this piece image.

And I know what a centaur is.

I never meant to imply otherwise. I was just pointing out the difficulty in portraying one in something short of a figurine piece.

I even took the challenge to represent one in 3D with the bottom of a knight and the top of warrior. My result is not a cute as your figurine but at least it looks like a chess piece in the same manner that a Staunton knight looks as a chess piece and not as a horseman figurine.

I look forward to seeing what is looks like when you create a page for your pieces. Things are now set up that you should now be able to do so. But let me know if you need to upload file formats that are not currently supported, as I remain unfamiliar with file formats for 3D printers and have not yet included support for uploading them in the File Manager.


Patchanka. (Updated!) Decimal variant with several bi-compound pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Mar 28 04:52 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 04:13 PM:

I did mean the Badger (I keep doing that). But no matter how much I flush the cache, "A Kirin is promoted to Badger" doesn't show the same Badger icon as the rest of the page.


💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Thu, Mar 28 04:13 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 03:20 PM:

@Bob: I missed the Beaver because ... there is no Beaver in this game. :=)

Do you mean the Badger? Me I see the Badger icon. Maybe it had disapeared for a while as other icons while our editors were changing something. Maybe. Have you tried to flush the cache?


Steward. (Updated!) Omnidirectional Pawn.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
noahthegamer wrote on Thu, Mar 28 04:13 PM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from Sat Mar 16 11:52 AM:

hey noahthegamer here. thanks for the chess+ link i was trying to find that for a while. also just so people know i intended for the omni pawn to be a buffed version of the pawn. i had no idea what so ever that someone already named their piece that.


Patchanka. (Updated!) Decimal variant with several bi-compound pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Thu, Mar 28 04:13 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 03:20 PM:

@Bob: I missed the Beaver because ... there is no Beaver in this game. :=)

Do you mean the Badger? Me I see the Badger icon. Maybe it had disapeared for a while as other icons while our editors were changing something. Maybe. Have you tried to flush the cache?


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Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Mar 28 03:42 PM UTC:

254. Horseshoe (Farrier). This is yet another probable piece for my Clue mashup game. It moves and captures normally like a lame Knight; and if that move doesn't capture, it may make a rifle capture in either orthogonal direction leading away from the starting square. (nN[nN-fcaibW][nN-lcaibW])

I'm considering changing the move to a more concise [nN-fhcaibK], though I'm also a bit concerned about how that would affect its power level.

Again, this is one of five candidates to join the six classic Clue weapons, plus Poison, in my Clue mashup game, along with the Axe, Dumbbell, and Trophy. I'll ask for preferences after I post the last one.

Yes, traditionally, a horseshoe is depicted with the open end up, as the superstition around it holds that having the open end down lets all the good luck fall out. In this case, since the horseshoe is a murder weapon, it seems fitting this way.


Patchanka. (Updated!) Decimal variant with several bi-compound pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Mar 28 03:20 PM UTC:

For an Alfaerie representation of the Okapi, while the Kangaroo isn't a bad choice, I've tended to use the Horse because of its stripes at the lower end.

(Oh, and you missed updating the Beaver's icon in the Rules section.) :)


Bob Greenwade wrote on Thu, Mar 28 03:18 PM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from Tue Mar 5 08:20 AM:

Since these are mythological creatures I have to disagree with the way they are used to move and capture in this game.

The moves of the Phoenix and (to a lesser extent) Medusa are established across multiple games.


Piececlopedia: Okapi. Members-Only Moves as Knight or Zebra.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Gaugamela Chess. Members-Only Asymmetric warfare that mirrors the famous battle of Gaugamela. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Steward. (Updated!) Omnidirectional Pawn.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
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Gaugamela Chess. Members-Only Asymmetric warfare that mirrors the famous battle of Gaugamela. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Florin Lupusoru wrote on Thu, Mar 28 09:33 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:44 AM:

It works now. Thank you again. 


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Gaugamela Chess. Members-Only Asymmetric warfare that mirrors the famous battle of Gaugamela. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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New Hexagonal chess variant[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Tom Byfield wrote on Thu, Mar 28 07:35 AM UTC:

Played on a 61 tile hexagonal board. 16 pieces per side like Mccooey's variant but where they have rotational symmetry. I have published it on itch.io under hexagonal chess If you want to see it. Stalemate is a draw.


Grand Apothecary Chess-Modern. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
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Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Mar 28 06:44 AM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 04:09 AM:

Have you flushed the browser cache? The none-pre-defined pieces are sorted alphabetically after the pre-programmed ones (with move), and I see the Stone after the Squirrel.


Grand Apothecary Chess-Classic. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
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Grand Apothecary Chess-Alert. (Updated!) Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
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Gaugamela Chess. Members-Only Asymmetric warfare that mirrors the famous battle of Gaugamela. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Florin Lupusoru wrote on Thu, Mar 28 04:09 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Wed Mar 27 09:03 PM:

Ah, of course, the PTA is using the PNG pieces, not the SVG, and in particular the 35x35 set. I now have added the stone there too.

Sorry to bother you again, but I still can't find them in the set. Am I doing something wrong? 


Xodohtro Chess. Members-Only Inverting some of the rules of orthodox Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Fairy Chess. Short introduction to the world of fairy chess problems.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Mar 28 12:49 AM UTC:

This page is merely a stub, and I would like to make it a more informative resource on the subject of fairy chess. What resources or websites can we link to that cover fairy chess?


Herculean Chess. 12 x 12 version of chess featuring 4 Rooks, 4 Bishops, 4 Leapers and 22 pawns. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Mar 27 09:31 PM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 05:59 PM:

The re-rendering of the SVGs at 50x50 appears to have created quite some errors. In this case the SVG fill color was #ffffff rather than #f9f9f9, and thus not recognized as something that should be recolored. I fixed it now, but since the faulty image is still cached by CloudFlare the fix doesn't show  up.


Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Mar 27 09:03 PM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 07:47 PM:

Ah, of course, the PTA is using the PNG pieces, not the SVG, and in particular the 35x35 set. I now have added the stone there too.

As I said below, I am using this as a game simulation for Territorial Chess, a combination of Chess and Go.  

OK, I see. You want to have Go-like capture. One way would be to define the move of the Stone as cU (Universal Leaper). Then you can use a stone to capture the entire chain you want to remove one by one, and finally move it back to where it came from.


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Daniel Zacharias wrote on Wed, Mar 27 09:01 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 02:50 PM:

I think the windmill would work well on a hexagonal board, since there aren't diagonals. A similar piece (could be called the circumnavigator) is one that moves around the outside of a group of friendly pieces.


Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Florin Lupusoru wrote on Wed, Mar 27 07:47 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 07:23 PM:

Ok. I'll give it a try. Could you update the set of pieces on both these pages please? I still can't find the Stone pieces and I want to see which one works best. 

As I said below, I am using this as a game simulation for Territorial Chess, a combination of Chess and Go.  


💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Mar 27 07:23 PM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 06:49 PM:

Make sure to flush your browser cache. Otherwise it won't see the new images, because it uses the cached directory listing for seeing what pieces are there.

Well if you have a piece that does have a defined move, you could move any piece you want to get rid of in its path, (through an illegal move to an empty square, which is always accepted), capture it with that, and then move it back. I agree this is more cumbersome, but I don't know how often thise works.

I don't know what variant you are using this for, but when you want Alfaerie pieces, you could also use the Play-Test Applet, which uses these by default. There you can define the correct moves, and if you want whole-board images, you can just take screenshots of it.


Play Chess Variants with Jocly. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
François Houdebert wrote on Wed, Mar 27 06:53 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:22 PM:

Indeed, Pulling still works!


Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Florin Lupusoru wrote on Wed, Mar 27 06:49 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:14 PM:

Thank you. It looks cool, but it only appears on Diagram Designer. I don't know if I can use it on this page anyway because I can't find a way to remove pieces without defined moves from the board. While trying to remove some checker pieces I realised that I can't do a proper simulation. 

Maybe I'll do it on Diagram Designer and modify the FEN Code as many times as it takes. I don't see another way. 


Play Chess Variants with Jocly. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Mar 27 06:28 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 06:22 PM:

So I am still trying to figure out what to do that would keep everybody happy.

Suggestion: Contact the admins at the hosting company, and ask. Barring anything else (meaning, if you don't get a reply after two tries), leave the "disabled" cgi in place but copy it to a new regular one.


H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Mar 27 06:22 PM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 06:14 PM:

Well, this is a bit tricky, since the webspace I use there is not really my own, but is hosted by someone I cooperated with long ago for the development of XBoard. And the problem appears to be that someone (not that person, so presumably someone from the hosting company itself with root access) renamed the gitweb.cgi script to 'gitweb.cgi_disabled_by_HL'. Now I could of course rename it back, but I suppose they intervened with the private files of their customers for a good reason (probably to do with security), and don't want to anger the hosting company and create trouble for the person that allows me to use his webspace. So I am still trying to figure out what to do that would keep everybody happy.

BTW, that gitweb.cgi is no longer there should not prevent you from pulling from the repository.


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💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Mar 27 06:14 PM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 03:16 PM:

OK, now I also added an SVG for the Alfaerie 'stone' image.


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François Houdebert wrote on Wed, Mar 27 06:14 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Sat Mar 23 10:59 AM:

Do you have a way to reactivate your git server, I haven't retrieved the patch from base-model.js yet.


Herculean Chess. 12 x 12 version of chess featuring 4 Rooks, 4 Bishops, 4 Leapers and 22 pawns. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Wed, Mar 27 05:59 PM UTC:

The interactive diagram on this page has a miscolored ferz-knight for black


Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Mar 27 05:51 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 05:16 PM:

you never change your mind

I do change my mind, and you even helped persuade me to remove the frog and an earlier fairy princess. But there are also matters on which I will stand my ground.


Bob Greenwade wrote on Wed, Mar 27 05:44 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 05:39 PM:

Awesome! Good job!


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Mar 27 05:39 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from Mon Mar 25 01:59 PM:

I think it might be helpful to have a form specifically designed for these more "generic" pages.

I have updated the submission scripts to handle other types of pages. This can be done with the Type field, which now includes all types. When its value is something other than Game, it provides only the first text field, which is normally used for the Introduction of a game. This field now has the database type of LONGTEXT instead of TEXT, which should be more than enough space for any file.


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, Mar 27 05:16 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Tue Mar 26 04:16 PM:

Well, I don't learn all past comments by heart, and I confess I often don't understand what you write here or there.

What I know is that Fairy chess is a term that we use in // to chess variant or non orthodox chess, etc. It doesn't mean a chess with fairies. I know plenty chess variants, I know none with fairies.

Fairies or princesses, I'm not going to spend time to discuss Disney movies. Everyone has got what I meant, the rough idea. When my daughter was <8 years she was playing with little fairies or princesses some wings. That is not a symbol I was expecting to see on this site. But you never change your mind, you prefer to argue like a lawyer and I don't have the skills in English to sustain this discussion.

And I know what a centaur is. I have some education. I even took the challenge to represent one in 3D with the bottom of a knight and the top of warrior. My result is not a cute as your figurine but at least it looks like a chess piece in the same manner that a Staunton knight looks as a chess piece and not as a horseman figurine.


Companion chess. (Updated!) The Queen may have a companion. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
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