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Home page of The Chess Variant Pages. Homepage of The Chess Variant Pages.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
dead dead wrote on Sun, May 12, 2019 02:25 AM UTC:

Cloudflare is slowing things down and only showing me a bogus timeout error (I know it's bogus because the site works fine on my other browser) when I use Safari. Please fix this ASAP. --KD


Cannon Shogi and Cannon Chess. Played on a 9x9 Shogi board, feature various types of 'Cannon' pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
dead dead wrote on Fri, May 17, 2019 05:48 PM UTC:

Combine Cannon Shogi with Okisaki Shogi on a checkered board and you've combined European, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean cheeses into one chess.


. Adds rifle-capturing archers and royalty-inheriting princes.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝dead dead wrote on Tue, Mar 30, 2021 03:39 AM UTC in reply to Ben Reiniger from Mon Mar 29 06:59 PM:

Fixed.


Accounting Chess. Modern Business Chess: win by capturing or indicting the opposing CEO (King), or bilking all of your Stockholders (Pawns). (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
dead dead wrote on Tue, Aug 24, 2021 01:01 AM UTC:

In a hypothetical Grand Accounting Chess, the Marshal and Archbishop would respectively be renamed as the COO and CMO, and along with long-range moves, using their Knight moves would make them Crooked.


Big Battle. Commercial chess variant on 10 by 10 board. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
dead dead wrote on Sun, Oct 3, 2021 08:39 PM UTC:

I know this is a really old commercial variant from the late-90s, but the moves of the Queen and the Prince should be swapped. That way, the Queen (=Amazon) remains the most powerful piece, and it makes sense to have two Princes (=Queen) and one Queen (=Amazon), instead of two Princes (=Amazon) and one Queen (=Queen).


Vao. moves like bishop but must jump when taking.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
dead dead wrote on Wed, Oct 20, 2021 11:25 PM UTC:

Originally posted on Pemba, where this piece is called a Crocodile.

Calling the diagonal Cannon a “Crocodile” makes zero sense. I prefer Gilman’s term for the piece: Arrow.


Gwangsanghui(광상희). Members-Only A large, historical variant of Janggi, with two more generals that lead each flank and 6 more kinds of pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

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Oblong chess. Variant of Shatranj, played on a four by sixteen sized board. (4x16, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
dead dead wrote on Fri, Apr 22, 2022 12:26 AM UTC in reply to from Thu Sep 9 2010 03:29 PM:

Or with the modern Bishop and Queen.


Falcon Chess. Game on an 8x10 board with a new piece: The Falcon. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
dead dead wrote on Thu, May 12, 2022 02:56 AM UTC:

The Falcon is a generalization of the Korean Elephant.


dead dead wrote on Thu, May 12, 2022 09:56 PM UTC:
A 3d version of the Falcon that would make sense, would also incorporate root-3 diagonal “Unicorn” moves. A combination of Duke’s Falcon with Gilman’s Vulture, Kite, and a piece Gilman surprisingly didn’t name (I think it would be a “Multipath Stepping Fortnight”, if my Gilmanese is correct). Gilman calls the leaping version of this piece a “Trison”.

Man and Beast 20: Far From Square. Systematic naming of more complex hex-specific pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
dead dead wrote on Fri, May 13, 2022 02:03 AM UTC:

What about Falcon-like pieces involving a Rumbaba or other HD component? Especially now that George Duke’s patent on these pieces has expired, so you’re free to make “Falkeschach”. (I also want to see more Rhino-like pieces that mix all 3 of Rookwise, Bishopwise, and Unicornwise steps (of course having a 3MD instead of an EMD); the first one of which has a Fortnightwise 3MD on a cubic board, and therefore could be called “Fortrhino”.)

My suggestion for the Chevron version of the Falcon would be Warlobird. (Which also allows a suffix for pieces mixing oblique moves like how the Falcon family mixes radial moves: for example, a Gnubird would mix Knight and Camel moves.)


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💡📝dead dead wrote on Fri, Sep 22, 2023 08:59 PM UTC:

I would like this page deleted. I made this variant when I was younger, and I want to remove it from the database. I have newer variants planned.


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