Ratings & Comments

Though it probably won't get seconded in time for April, I think Dai Seireigi is worthy.

The crowned knight would be suitable for a game like Cavalier Chess or Fusion Chess, where the centaur is royal, but for a game such as Sac Chess, where it is not, something else may be more desirable. In my photograph for Sac Chess, I used Peter Ganine's Superba pieces for the so-called crowned pieces, because these have human faces, and this conveyed the idea of being able to move like a man.

The second image is hard for me to see as a centaur. Without the horse head, it is hard to make out that the neck and what's left of the mane are horse parts. So my first impression of it was that it was a weird abstract shape that for some reason has a curve where other pieces don't. It would work better for me if the horse part were more obvious.

ok, that does fix it

Yes, I wasn't satisfied my self with a crowned Knight like this.

I conceived a Centaur like that:

It looks like a Black piece on my monitor.

Try adding "?nocache=true" to the end of the URL, press enter, then flush the cache with Ctrl-Reload.

This still is white for me.

The author, Lev Grigoriev, has updated this page.

The setup part says that Banshee is RNN.

Is an Omni pawn being able to promote on its own side of the board intentional?

It seems we are turning into an art website, now that 75% of the pages is devoted to art, and only a quarter contains actual information. (And that is even discounting the ads...)

Perhaps we should move the website to the domain www.chess-art.com, instead of chessvariants.com?

A figure with a horse head or helmet doesn't remind me of a centaur.

The author, Florin Lupusoru, has updated this page.

somehow it says

Web page created: 2024-01-26. Web page last updated: 2023-11-25

I have added some more AI art illustrating suggestions for how to portray a centaur in a manner more compatible with Staunton pieces than a full figurine piece would be.

I agree that it's hard to understand with the board distorted so much

the ferz knight in this interactive diagram is wrongly colored for black

Not for me. Try to flush your browser cache; this problem was already detected and fixed in Herculean Chess, and that fix should be effective here too.

Resegnation is a fact of life that cannot be prevented by any rules. The best rules can do is put a sanction on doing it, and the worst imaginable sanction is an individual game is that you would lose. Which is exactly the idea, and thus has zero value as a deterrent. You will have to find a better solution for when one of the palyers forfeits (e.g. loses on time because he simply walked away).

The board is drawn in an unnecessarily much distorted way; many cells are very narrow, without reason. The 'arms' of the board could be made much wider, and all cells could be approximately circular. All edge cells could be of the same, minimal size, and then increase in size towards the center, the three heptagons being largest of all.

Is the Sissa possible in fairy-max?

No.:-(

I am planning to create an engine similar in strength to Fairy-Max which can do anything the Interactive Diagram can do. But it is in a very early stage of inception,  and the project was interrupted by the necessity to rescue the TalkChess forum.

This sounds like a neat idea, but I struggle to make sense of the board directions even with the diagram showing where the orthogonals and diagonals are.
 

Resignation is not allowed if one of the opponents (or both of them) doesn’t accept it.

This seems rather arbitrary.

Otherwise, the page is good enough to be approved.

the ferz knight in this interactive diagram is wrongly colored for black

I do the piece models using Tinkercad, which has a pretty low learning curve, and make the actual renderings shown here by uploading the pieces (and the move diagrams) into Thingiverse.

Do you do all these graphics on Blender? I was wondering how long it takes to master Blender. 

Ultraadvancer Chess

Probably. I thought about that, but just decided to go with what I had.

For that matter, I probably could use smaller circles on both pieces, leaving the struts as they are.

How about a 135° Rhino '(abz)W'? A Pine.
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Minor Trouble by HatterTobias, AKA user1221, Bent Piece Enthusiast, burnerguy2222, the Arbalest

well it works now so I guess I was doing something wrong

Is the Paste Diagram description here: input broken?

Not that I know; for me it still works. What are you trying to paste?

Is the Paste Diagram description here: input broken?

255. Mountie. When I published the Moose a few weeks ago, it was taken from a list that treated it as the Queen version, with a Rook Moose and a Bishop Moose also present... but what about a Knight Moose? But it needed a better name, so I thought about what sort of mounted person exists in the land of moose, and the only thing I could think of was the traditional Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

A strictly Knight-like Moose isn't really practical, since the Knight is a single-step mover, but making a Nightrider works. Therefore, the Mountie moves like a Nightrider until it reaches a hurdle, at which point it turns ~45° and makes exactly one more step. (pafsNN)

In this illustration, the White Mountie uses the Black Bishop as a mount, and can turn right to capture the Black Knight or turn left to the empty space (c8). It cannot stop at the first step (c4), capture the Bishop, move beyond the Black Knight (h8), or move in any other direction.

I'm actually not sure how this piece would play out in an actual game. I think it'd work best on a larger board; and it probably would be more of a complication than an actual power piece, though I've been wrong about that kind of thing before.

The model is basically a Knight with my attempt at a Mountie's hat (aka "Smokey hat" in the US).

There are still tables, such as on this page, that don't work with the dark theme.