Check out Symmetric Chess, our featured variant for March, 2024.

External Link: Fidchell

This is a rules file for Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules to. With Zillions-of-Games installed, this rules file will let you play this game against your computer.

Gary Gygax's Fidchell is played on a 12x12 field with two opponents, Black and White. It has many different types of pieces, and 8 special squares.

This version of Fidchell was invented by Gary Gygax, the co-author of the famous Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game.

External Link: http://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/89547?do=show;id=1567

Download Instructions


This 'user submitted' page is a collaboration between the posting user and the Chess Variant Pages. Registered contributors to the Chess Variant Pages have the ability to post their own works, subject to review and editing by the Chess Variant Pages Editorial Staff.


Author: Larry L. Smith. Inventor: Gary Gygax.
Web page created: 2008-03-23. Web page last updated: 2008-03-23