Link to Jean-Louis Cazaux chess variants page

Jean-Louis Cazaux is, besides one of the editors of this website, also author of two books on Chess Variants. The first one is titled Guide des échecs exotiques et insolites, which has appeared in the beginning of February 2000. The second book appeared end 2000, and was coauthored by Pascal Reysset. It is titled L'univers des Échecs. The books are written in French. Cazaux also coauthored a third book titled The anatomy of chess, and wrote a book on track games called du Senet au Backgammon.

On the home page of Jean-Louis Cazaux, you can find information on :

• his books : scan of the cover, summary, table of contents, how to order, etc.

• History of Chess, Xiangqi, Shogi and other variations. This rich section offer a large choice of photographs of the most famous archaeological findings. The information given here has been established through his collaboration with several game historians. Also included here are pages taking the records of champions and competitions of the different chess.

• The variants of his invention : Shako, Tamerlane 2000, Perfect 12, Rollerball , The War of the Worlds and more. Most of them include files to play them with Zillions.

Jean-Louis Cazaux: another view on chess