Items Authored by Uwe Wiedemann
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Alapo
. Game with abstract pieces. Reach opponents first row on 6 by 6 board. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Johannes Tranelis.
Almost Chess
. One queen has combined rook and knight moves. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Amazone Chess
. Queen may also move as a knight. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Anywhere Chess
. Pieces (except kings) can make teleport moves to any empty square on the board. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Brett Rules
. Different mobility of queens, rooks, and bishops and a different winning condition. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Juraj Pivovarov.
Byelorussian Cheskers
. Crossover between chess and Russian draughts. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: N. N. Grushevsky.
Castle Chess
. White must prevent black from castling. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Chazz
. Only kings and pawns. Pawns can move backwards. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Cheskers
. Cross-variant between chess and checkers. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Solomon W. Golomb.
Chess 2000
. Chess on 8 by 8 board with knight/rook and knight/bishop pieces. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Gerhard Josten.
Coherent Chess
. Variant on 9 by 9 board with special knights. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Carlos Cetina.
Coregal Chess
. Both kings and queens are royal. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
Crowded Angle 10x10 Chess
. Variant where pieces are set up in a L-shape on a 10x10 board. By Uwe Wiedemann.
Demi-Chess
. Chess on a 4 by 8 board. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Peter Krystufek.
Desertion Chess
. When you move next to opposing pieces, they desert to your side; win by converting or capturing all opposing pieces. By Uwe Wiedemann.
Diana Chess
. Chess on a 6 by 6 board. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: ? Hopwood.
Dunsany's chess
. 32 pawns play against a full set of pieces. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Edward John Morton Drax Plunkett.
Dutch Chess
. Different objective and piece movements with orthodox chess set. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Elena Chess
. Chess on 5 by 6 board. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
Extended Half-Chess
. Variant on 4 by 10 board. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Football Chess
. A Football/Soccer game played with Chess pieces. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
Fussball Chess
. Win by moving a piece to the starting square of the king of the opponent. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Hoppel-Poppel
. Variant in which Knights capture as Bishops and Bishops capture as Knights. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Hourglass Chess
. 38-Square board in shape of Hourglass. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Uri Bruck.
Kamikaze Chess
. Capturing pieces also are removed. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: B. G. Laws.
Kinglet
. Win by taking all the pawns of the opponent. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
The Knights Tour
. Try to solve the knights tour problem with Zillions of Games. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Knightsbridge
. 14 knights against 14 knights on a 7 by 7 board. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Ladder Chess
. Chess variant on a `skewed' board with 40 squares. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
Maharadscha
. Lone king, moving as queen+knight, versus an army. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Monster Chess
. One player has only a king and four pawns, but makes double moves. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Pawn-Only Chess
. Training chess variant. Only pawns, first promotion wins. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Reduced Endgame Chess
. Two kings and six pawns are used for practicing endgames. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Robber Chess
. Sliding pieces can make multiple captures, and the goal is to capture all opposing pieces. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Rooksquare Chess
. Win by moving piece to corner at opponent's side. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Jens Baek Nielsen.
Schachdame
. Variant between Checkers and Chess. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Heinrich Richter.
Schachmühle
. Morris game played on a Chessboard with Chess pieces. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Separate
. Queens start trapped behind enemy lines. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Brian Wong.
Sissa
. Variant on 9 by 9 board with Sissa's, which move like a Bishop than a Rook, or like a Rook, then a Bishop. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Carlos Cetina.
Solitaire chess puzzles
. Several chess puzzles to try with Zillions of Games. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Springermühle
. Chessboard Morris game played with Knights. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Stationary King Chess
. Kings can't move. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Sting
. A game where Kings can move like Grasshoppers in addition to their normal move. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Symmetric Sissa
. Variant on 9 by 9 board with symmetric setup and two Sissa's (generalized Knight-like sliders). Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Carlos Cetina.
Tauschach
. Each player has one piece off the board, that can be switched every turn with one of his pieces but not the king. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
Turmmühle
. Chessboard Morris game played with Rooks. By Uwe Wiedemann.
Tutti Frutti Chess
. With bishop-knight, knight-rook, queen-knight and the usual pieces on an 8 by 8 board. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Unirexal Chess
. Only white has a king. Author: Uwe Wiedemann. Inventor: Vernon Rylands Parton.
Weak!
. Black has 7 knights, and 16 pawns, White the usual array. Author: Uwe Wiedemann.
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