Items Invented by David Howe
Craft
- Floppy Board Tiles. An example of a chess variant board construction set. By David Howe.
Game
- Arena Chess 42. A non-competing entry in the 42 Squares contest. (Cells: 42) By David Howe.
- Bifold Halfgi. A variant of Halfgi, but with half-sized pieces. By David Howe.
- Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. On a 10 row by 8 column board, with three new pieces. (8x10, Cells: 80) By David Howe.
- Chess-like Variant Construction Set. Critique. Author: John William Brown. Inventor: David Howe.
- A Chess-like Variant Construction Set. Build your own army and territory. By David Howe.
- Chess37. A chess variant on a board with 37 squares where pieces outside of the center 9 squares move like Kings. (Cells: 37) By David Howe.
- Combination Chess. Pieces give their movement capabilities to friendly pieces in their zone of influence. (Cells: 39) By David Howe.
- Continuous Chess. There are no 'squares' on the board, and pieces are not restricted to moving discrete distances. By David Howe.
- Contrast Chess. Pieces lose or gain strength depending on the colour of the square they stand on. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
- Dave's Example Game. This is Dave Howe's example of a user-posted game. (2x2, Cells: 4) By David Howe.
- Diagonal Chess. Board turned 45 degrees. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
- Feeble Los Alamos Chess. Los Alamos Chess using Feeble pieces. (6x6, Cells: 36) By David Howe.
- Fun-in-a-Box Chess. Featuring Thing One and Thing Two from The Cat in the Hat. By David Howe.
- Infinite Recursion Chess. Another mega-chess type game. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) By David Howe.
- Interchange Chess. Get as many of your own pieces to their destination squares on the other side of the board as possible. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe. Inventor: Alexandre Muñiz and David Howe.
- InterGrid Chess. Pieces on corners and on centers of squares of 8 by 8 board. (8x8, Cells: 145) By David Howe.
- Knight-Tac-Toe. Small variant with only kings and knights where you must get three pieces in line in the center of the board. (5x5, Cells: 25) By David Howe.
- Mega-Chess. A chess game where each piece is a chess game! (64x(8x8), Cells: 4096) By David Howe.
- Multimove Chess. Players spend points to make multiple moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
- Nomic Chess. Combination of Peter Suber's Nomic with Ralph Betza's Chess For Any Number of Players. By David Howe.
- Palindromic Chess. Play until the position on the board is the reversed of the starting postion. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
- Pawns Chess. Each pawn has a unique ability. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
- Portal Chess. Two boards and pieces can teleport from one board to another. Also playable with two half-boards. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
- Potential Chess. Pieces start out as any piece and become a particular piece depending on how they move,. By David Howe.
- Quad-Square Chess. Chess on a board of 38 squares, of which six have size two by two. (7x8, Cells: 38) By David Howe.
- Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board. (10x10, Cells: 100) (Recognized!) Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Peter Aronson and David Howe.
- Shifting Chess. Variant inspired on shifting puzzles; one can move pieces of the board. (8x8, Cells: 56) By David Howe.
- Tapestry Chess. Chess on a four-color 6x6 board, with a 5 square control board. (6x6, Cells: 41) By David Howe.
- Twelve Mutation Chess. Variant that uses 12 mutators that may be activated or deactivated during the game. By David Howe.
- Xhess. Decimal variant with Nightriders and Cannons. (10x10, Cells: 100) By David Howe.
Misc
- UTF Conversion Page. Page for documenting UTF conversion issues. By David Howe.
PBM
- Bifold Halfgi. Bifold pieces are able to combine with other same-colored bifold pieces and move as a single normal sized piece. By David Howe.
- Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. Play this 8x10 game with three new pieces. Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: David Howe.
- Multimove FIDE Chess. Each turn utilizes a number of points that get applied to movement. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Howe.
- Rococo. A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board (includes mirror array and Push-Pullyu variants). Author: Peter Aronson and Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Peter Aronson and David Howe.
- Xhatranj. Contemporary shatranj with more advanced pieces including interesting hook movers. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Howe and Christine Bagley-Jones.
- Xhess. Decimal variant with Nightriders and Cannons. Author: Greg Strong. Inventor: David Howe.
Photo
- Xhess Photographs. Photo's of large chess variant. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: David Howe.
Piece
- Rococo. Animated piece movement diagrams. By Peter Aronson and David Howe.
Piececlopedia
- Advancer. Moves like a Queen, but captures by approach. Author: Ben Good. Inventor: David Howe.
Reference
- Chess Variant Pages Rating System. Missing description By David Howe.
Zillions
- Arena Chess 42 . Game with two boards totaling 42-squares where pieces captured on the large board move to the small board. By David Howe.
- Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added . On a 10 row by 8 column board, with three new pieces. By David Howe.
- Chess37 . A chess variant on a board with 37 squares where pieces outside of the center 9 squares move like Kings. Author: Andrew Juell. Inventor: David Howe.
- Combination Chess . Pieces give their movement capabilities to friendly pieces in their zone of influence. By David Howe.
- Diagonal Chess . Board turned 45 degrees. Author: Marek14 . Inventor: David Howe.
- Feeble Los Alamos Chess . Los Alamos Chess using Feeble pieces. By David Howe.
- Fun-In-A-Box Chess . Featuring Thing One and Thing Two from The Cat in the Hat. Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: David Howe.
- InterGrid Chess . Pieces on corners and on centers of squares of 8 by 8 board. By David Howe.
- Knight-Tac-Toe . Win by placing 3 pieces in a row. By David Howe.
- Quad-Square Chess . Chess on a board of 38 squares, of which six have size two by two. Author: Robert Price. Inventor: David Howe.
- Rococo . A clear, aggressive Ultima variant on a 10x10 ring board. Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: Peter Aronson and David Howe.
- Tapestry . Chess on a four-color 6x6 board, with a 5 square control board. Author: Peter Aronson. Inventor: David Howe.
- Xhatranj . An exotic variant of Shatranj with more powerful pieces. By Christine Bagley-Jones and David Howe.
- Xhess . Decimal variant with Nightriders and Cannons. By David Howe.
- Xhess . Version using Alfaerie graphics. By David Howe.
ZSG
- Chess on a Longer Board Zillions Saved Game . Download this file to see this game played in the Multivariant Play by E-Mail Tournament. Author: Michael Nelson and John Lawson. Inventor: David Howe.
- Rococo Zillions Saved Game . Download this file to see this game played in the Multivariant Play by E-Mail Tournament. Author: Peter Aronson and John Lawson. Inventor: Peter Aronson and David Howe.
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