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More Shift Square Chess. Shifted Square Chess needs more than one page to explore its possibilities. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

gnohmon wrote on Thu, May 22, 2003 10:05 PM EDT:

Peter, I foolishly deleted your email before replying to it.

What you were looking for is here, in 'more shifted square'.

By the way, has anybody done a 16x8 with two sets including two kings? I
searched and didn't find, and am writing it up whether or not because it
has interesting aspects...

Peter Aronson wrote on Fri, May 23, 2003 12:21 AM EDT:

Ah! What confused me is that you also have a game called Nick Danger Chess on the Tirebiter Chess page, but it's a different game! <hr> I'm fairly sure that no one has published 16x8 with two Kings as a two-player game. As a four-player game there's Mecklenburg Chess (which the CVP seems to have confused with Mechlenbeck Chess which is something else entirely).

Anonymous wrote on Fri, May 23, 2003 04:04 AM EDT:

I think there's a 8x16-sized-board-with-two-kings game called Millenium Chess here.

Tim Stiles wrote on Fri, May 23, 2003 04:06 AM EDT:

um, I meant 16x8 of course. heh. and I forgot to put my name in two. *slaps self*

John Lawson wrote on Fri, May 23, 2003 07:11 AM EDT:

Aha!  Thanks!  I was looking for that, and the reason I couldn't find it
was that it is 15x8 (two Kings, but only three Rooks.)  The CVP link page
is: http://www.chessvariants.com/link2.dir/millenniumchess.html .

Dan Troyka wrote on Fri, May 23, 2003 12:17 PM EDT:

There's a game called <a href='http://www.zillionsofgames.com/games/doublechess.html'>Double Chess</a> (not the first CV to use this name) that was posted to the Zillions of Game web site in April 2000. Each player has two complete sets of pieces arrayed side by side and the object is to checkmate one of the opponent Kings.

Peter Aronson wrote on Fri, May 23, 2003 12:36 PM EDT:

Clearly I spoke (typed?) too soon -- good thing there were other regulars around to catch my mistake!

gnohmon wrote on Sat, May 24, 2003 01:40 AM EDT:

As I said, it hardly matters whether Doublewide Chess has been previously
published under some other name.

The importaint thing is that Doublewide has remarkably interesting
strategical implications which need to be discussed in full before anybody
can speak of Triplewide or Infinitewide Chess.

The advantage of being a fairly strong chessplayer (I'm an FM, which
sounds great to you but which means zilch when I play chess) as well as a
well-eductaed variant inventor is that I can understand perhaps on a good
day I can dig more deeply into a variant which catches my attention.

Doublewide is an important building block. After I started writing about
it, I discovered there was more that needed to be written.

Maybe in a few days....

Mark Thompson wrote on Sat, May 24, 2003 03:37 AM EDT:

Actually Milennium Chess is on a 15x8 board. There's only one rook in the middle; apparently having two rooks in the center was too much concentration of power. The object is to capture one enemy king and checkmate the other. I've found it enjoyable, and the vinyl board is quite nicely made.

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