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Classification Summary
Size
Description
The scale refers to the number of cells or positions taken-up when the piece is first brought into play.
Possible values are:
Zero, Mono, Duo, Trio,...
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The pattern refers to the grouping of cells or positions taken-up.
Possible values are:
Rectangular, Continuous, Distributed
where
Rectangular
refers to...
Classification Summary
Description
The size of a piece is the number of cells or positions occupied by that piece.
Attributes of size are:
Scale, Pattern, Span, Time,...
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The span refers to the dimensions of a rectangular pattern in terms of height and width (or rank and file). Thus a piece which has a span of 1x2 occupies a...
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The time refers to the movement of a piece's single cell components.
Possible values are:
Synchronous, Asynchronous
where
Synchronous
means all...
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The state refers to the way the number of cells or positions taken-up may vary.
Possible values are:
Constant Increasing Decreasing...
span
Piece Listing
Classification Summary
Complexity
Description
Moving refers to the number of step-types or primitive moves available to a piece.
Possible values are:
Single, Double, Triple, Quadruple,...
Classification Summary
Complexity
Description
The combination describes how the available primitive moves are linked to give a piece's movement.
Possible values are:
Simple, Inclusive,...
Classification Summary
Complexity
Description
The conflux refers to the relationship between a piece's non-capturing and capturing movement.
Possible values are:
Divergent,...
Classification Summary
Description
The complexity of a piece describes how many ways the piece can move. It is determined by the number of step-types used and the way they are...
2007-08-27 Sam Trenholme CVPages Comments
This discussion inspired me to look a little more closely at the short-range project. Here is what I have come up with so far:
31 short-range pieces
I will...
Classification Summary
Description
The variability of a piece describes how the abilities of a piece may vary (or not vary) over the course of a game.
Attributes of variability are:
Moves, Mode,...
Recent discussions at chessvariants.org have considered the future of chess and the viability of the 8x8 board. Most see a future chess game on a larger board with FIDE pieces basically intact,...
<This piece makes a wazir movement (orthogonal) and than a bishop (diagonal) move.>
BET = A;
DHTe = Size: 1 square; Move: Range = 2 squares only; one-step leaper [diag]; Capture: by replacement;
VBL = The alfil moves in a two-square diagonal jump, leaping over any intervening...
BET = AD; DHTe = Size: 1 square; Move: Range = 2 squares only; one-step leaper [ortho + diag]; Capture: by replacement; VBL = This piece is an Alfil+Dabbabah compound. It leaps 2 squares either...
This is a suggested system for describing, naming, and classifying pieces used in Chess Variants based on their movement.
It is a development of ideas first expressed in comments that arose while...
<A Quenn+Knight compound.>
Directed Alice
posted at the chessvariant pages on
2008-01-14 Joe Joyce Verified as Joe Joyce None
VR Parton's Alice Chess is a classic abstract strategy board game, one
with a very unique twist....
This is a page for the development of my ideas for a Hyper-large CV. It was inspired by the super-large CV designs of Joe Joyce.
The principal design aim behind the game is to push Chess as far...
This chart compares the fraction of squares attacked vs. distance for selected pieces. All the FIDE pieces are here, along with the ancient "building block" pieces, and several newer pieces, most...
Battle Line - a very small superlarge variant
The board is 20x30, 600 squares. Each side starts with 48 pieces, for a starting piece density of 16%. This game features multiple piece moves per turn...
The bishop slides diagonally any number of squares. It may not leap. It is colorbound, limited to 1/2 of a rectangular board with even-numbered edge lengths.
Introduction
This CV is a testbed for ideas arising from my investigation of Trigonal Boards.
Proposed Board
The board consists of 120 trigons giving it a size category of 4 (Large). Its overall...
Introduction
This utility will produce images of chess variant playing boards and game positions.
Currently boards with hexagonal cells and a shape derived from a regular hexagon, or with square...
Classification by Cell Shape And Dimensions
A Board Size category may be determined by fixing minimum and maximum cells using the formula:
Min Cells = ((Faces + 1) x...
This utility is a Java Applet that applies CAST to value a given Piece when used with a particular board.
Notes
If the piece has an unlimited move, such as the Rook or Bishop, then the "Move"...
Any position on a game's board that may be occupied by that game's pieces.
Such occupation may be:
singular and complete - a cell holds a single complete piece.
singular and partial - a cell...
Chesimals are "Autonomous Multi-unit Pieces", or AMPs. Each chesimal has one or more leader or brain units or whatever you choose to call it, that activates the individual units that make up the...
Chesimals I
Chesimal: a "chess animal".
An introduction to self-contained Autonomous Multi-unit Pieces [AMPs] on a 12x16 board, with 32 pieces per side. This game is playable with 2 chess sets...
Chesimals II
Chesimal: a "chess animal". This is a "piece" composed of several standard chesspieces with their own "king". When this chesimal moves, all the component chesspieces [may] move in that...
Game or Chess Variant?
What features must a game have in order to qualify as a Chess Variant?
From the discussion in the comments it seems the following might be the answer.
The single defining...
These rules include mini-Chieftain, Superchief, and Overlord
This page has links to 6 presets.
There are 2 variants with preset buttons found just under the setup picture for the original 16x12...
Classification Summary
Complexity
Description
The combination describes how the available primitive moves are linked to give a piece's movement.
Possible values are:
Simple, Inclusive,...
Complementarity
Part I: 16 Square - Distance of 2 Square Movers and their Elementary Counterparts:
Here are some ideas about pieces that might be of some interest to the Short Range...
Classification Summary
Description
The complexity of a piece describes how many ways the piece can move. It is determined by the number of step-types used and the way they are...
Classification Summary
Complexity
Description
The conflux refers to the relationship between a piece's non-capturing and capturing movement.
Possible values are:
Divergent,...
state
Piece Listing
DavidHowe
conflux
Piece Listing
Introduction
This area brings together those variants based upon Courier or Courier-Spiel.
Comments
Pot Luck 2008 field set!
Based on current 365 day ratings of all public games, the seeds are as
follows:
1. Charles Daniel (Chucky D!)
2. Joe Joyce (MJ the 3rd!)
3. Carlos Carlos ( C squared )
4....
Chess for Three
Dino-Czars
Klin Zha
Pirate Chess
Sankaku Shogi
Triangle Chess
Triangular Chess
Taasen
The dabbabah leaps two squares orthogonally, jumping over any piece next to it. It is restricted to one-quarter of the board.
Proposed Board
to be continued
Introduction
Following a suggestion by Jeremy Good to try designing for medium sized boards, Delta64 is just that - a trigonal CV played on a standard-sized board of 64 cells between 2 players,...
This variant has been published at chessvariants.org
Delta Variants
Design Principles
This is both a test of how to use a wiki by doing, and an attempt to propose some basic ideas about game design. For now, I'm just going to list a couple things:
Playability:
The...
Summary Table
Size
Scale
Zero Mono Duo Trio Quarto Pento Hexo Hepto Octo Nono Multi
Pattern
Rectangular Continuous Distributed
Span
Undefined...
This is an attempt to provide a simple version of Graeme Neatham's expansion of David Howe's Taxonomy. It is meant to allow rapid search for piece characteristics as an aid to variant...
moving
Piece Listing
Devlopment of this variant has ceased - but it has lead to M Courier Chess
This variant applies some of the ideas from S Courier Chess to ExCoCo Chess.
This is attempt number 2.
Pieces
The piece...
A move type whereby an off-board piece is placed on the board.
A drop may form a complete move by itself or may be played in combination with other move types.
The dropped piece may have begun...
Some have toyed with the idea of mixing Chess and Go.
These efforts have met limited success. Aside from both being venerable and respected, the two games have little in common. GESS and CheGo are...
Moves as an alfil or ferz. It may slide 1 or jump 2 squares diagonally.
elephant-modern
Page to be included piece:elephant-modern can not be found!
-Ludic (Jianying Ji)
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Pieces
Half Rook
True Knight
True Bishop
Guardian Queen
Fuddly King
Double Pawn
Special Moves
Castling
En...
The Step
The basic move is a single step to an adjacent cell. The step may be made across a side or edge or through a corner point or apex. The number of adjacent cells is a function of the angle...
Moves 1 square in any diagonal direction, is colorbound, and captures by replacement.
Diagram 1 - 128 trig board
Diagram 2
a-step Wazir
Diagram 3
e-step Wazir
Diagram 4
i-step Ferz
Diagram 5
p-step Ferz
Diagram 6
Guard move
Diagram 7
Crusader
Diagram...
Raumschach is the classic 3D Chess.
Flatschach is a tongue-in-cheek exploration of what a two-dimensional version of Raumschach might be like. Take the 5 5x5 boards of Raumschach, place them...
A bent 2-step wazir/dabbabahrider. Moves twice as a dabbabah or wazir. It slides 1 or jumps 2 squares orthogonally, then may do either again. It can move 1, 2, 3 or 4 squares in a turn. It may...
This page will contain a discussion and complete rules to Fortress Chess, a superlarge variant.
Following is the current...
Speculation on the future of chess
There has been some discussion recently (Sept-2007) at ChessVariants.Org concerning the possible form of a future orthodox or standard chess.
I thought such a...
The following games were produced for The ShortRange Project
Five original variants were provided by Christine Bagley-Jones and Joe Joyce:
HyperModern Shatranj
HyperModern Great Shatranj
LSM...
Uses a specialized version of a drop, where a piece or pawn is placed on a usually vacant cell as an extended move type of one or more pieces already on the board, as designated by the rules for...
See Man.
Moves as the king, 1 square orthogonally or diagonally.
Moves like the knight, alfil, or ferz. It slides 1 or leaps 2 squares diagonally, or leaps in the standard knight's "L".
1.Create a page
Use Add a new page at the foot of the side-bar to create a page named
pcp-a?:<piece-name>
replacing <piece-name> with the name of the piece, and the ? with the initial...
If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor with a toolbar pallette with options.
To create a link to a new page,...
What is this Page?
This page is here to allow new members to introduce themselves. Of course, there is no requirement to do so. Please use the commenting system to do so, rather than editing the...
In attempting to design new pieces, I've found it necessary to come up with a shorthand way to represent these pieces, both on the board as icons in Game Courier, and on "paper" when writing about...
combination
Piece Listing
Who can join?
Anyone can join.
Join!
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See Squire.
It may move 1 square or leap 2 squares orthogonally or diagonally.
This is a test page to try out the new Wiki.
Introduction
In chess, white has a very slight advantage from moving first. This variant attempts to balance white's first move advantage by giving...
The royal piece. This is the standard chess king, moving 1 square in any direction. The king may not move into nor remain in check.
This is the FIDE standard chess knight, leaping 2 squares, one orthogonally and the second diagonally outward.
Moves twice as a dabbabah or wazir. It slides 1 or leaps 2 squares orthogonally, then may do either again. It can move 1, 2, 3 or 4 squares. It must move in a straight line.
Introduction
to be continued…
Piece Name
LT Descriptive Name
Fibnif
Fierce-Brave-Bereft-Knight
or
Fearless-Forlorn-Noble-Ferz
Cavalier
Fierce-Rook-Fire-Strider
Lance
Brave-Rook
Moves as the king, 1 square orthogonally or diagonally.
unlimited straight rider anydirection double (1,0) (1,1) joint convergent static stable noeffect displacer mono constant synchronous rectangular 1x1
Description
Makes a series of knight-like...
marauder
Page to be included piece:marauder can not be found!
Introduction
This variant grew out of Double Courier Chess and uses an enhanced Marquess piece.
Set-Up
The board is 16x12
Each player has 42 pieces:
1 King, 1 Queen,
2 Elephants, 2 Warriors, 2...
Invite your friends to join this Wiki!
Moves like the knight, dababbah, or wazir. It slides 1 or jumps 2 squares orthogonally, or leaps in the standard knight's "L".
scale
Piece Listing
Makes a single knight-like move ( a diagonal step plus an orthogonal step in either order).
May not leap other pieces so the square reached by the initial step must be empty.
Combines moa amd...
moo
Page to be included piece:moo can not be found!
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Syntax
The step
Direction
Grouping
Destination
Non-destination squares
Continuation
Repetition
Board and State...
Classification Summary
Complexity
Description
Moving refers to the number of step-types or primitive moves available to a piece.
Possible values are:
Single, Double, Triple, Quadruple,...
Game\Player
Charles
Carlos
George
Donut
Joe
Graeme
Jeju
Juan
Wormhole chess
n
v
Hole chess
n
Falcon chess
n
v
Atlantean Barroom Shatranj
n
v
Grand Shatranj...
This Piececlopedia uses multiple notations and classification systems. Under this section will be found guides to how each works.
The systems currently in use are:
Betza's funny notation
Joe's...
This notation is an attempt to provide a precise unambiguous formulaic representation of the move of a chess or fairy chess piece. The initial presentation assumes a 2-dimensional board composed of...
A double elephantrider. Moves twice as an alfil or ferz. It slides 1 or jumps 2 squares diagonally, and then may do either again. Thus it may move 1, 2, 3, or 4 squares. It must move in a...
This piece steps 1 or leaps 2 orthogonally or diagonally, and then may continue on in the same direction, making 1 more step or leap, at the player's option.
Classifications: Betza = ?; JSN =...
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The pattern refers to the grouping of cells or positions taken-up.
Possible values are:
Rectangular, Continuous, Distributed
where
Rectangular
refers to...
A guide to pieces found in Chess and Chess Variants together with an appendix giving definitions of terms used
Alphabetic Listing
Appendix - Terminology
Class Listing
Other web...
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There's been some discussion about various pieces, how they'd fare on different boards, the likelyhood of draws. In a spirit of fun, I'd like to offer a competitive way to evaluate the various...
Pd = C
where
P is the number of Pieces per side
C is the number of Cells on the Board
d is the density factor
For FIDE chess d is 1.500, for XiangQi 1.623, and for Shogi 1.467. The average is...
I want to develop some variants that have pieces with unusual effects on other pieces. Here are a couple of experimental attempts with pieces from ultima / roccoco and other variants:
I....
Command Area Speed Targets
CAST is a method for valuing chess piece types used in a given CV.
A java implementation of CAST can be found here.
Introduction
CAST arose out of my frustration with...
Piece Evaluation by the Restricted King method
Example Values
Board
Knight
Bishop
Rook
Queen
Chancellor
8x8
3.0904
3.1147
5.2893
9.0126
8.2326
10x8
3.1577
3.1414
5.4129
9.1584
8.4125
The...
This is really just a test to see if the wiki runs included PHP code - I was just curious
Pond Scum: a 10K variant
This is an attempt to push chess way beyond the boundaries of any previous variant*. It is played on a 100x100 square board, hence the "10K". It is not meant to be a...
Introduction
This page contains undeveloped ideas for possible trig-based CVs.
Trigonal Tiling Rider Chess
a possible board:
These are the games for the 2008 Potluck Tournament:
Altair
Atlantean Barroom Shatranj
Bachelor Chess
Birds and Ninjas
Circular Chess _with Crooked Bishops & Queen
Eight Stone
Falcon...
Let's say you want a 10x10 board, and like the Grand Chess board. But you are going to use some unusual pieces, and don't know exactly what icons to use, so you want a choice of icons.
Go to the...
pattern
Piece Listing
Square cells
Row lists - colon separated row numbers - 0:1:10:11
Cell lists - colon seperated per row lists, the per row lists are hyphen separated numbers, the first being a row number with the rest referring...
Pool 1
White
Black
Charles
Carlos
George
Donut
Total
Charles
x
Stealth Ninja
Chess
?-?
Titan Chess
?-?
Birds and Ninjas
?-?
0
Carlos
Falcon Chess
?-?
x
Hole Chess
?-?
Wormhole...
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The scale refers to the number of cells or positions taken-up when the piece is first brought into play.
Possible values are:
Zero, Mono, Duo, Trio,...
Well, erm..
This is the first time I post a page here, so please be patient with me.
I liked ExCoCo Chess, and I found it to be a very neat idea. However, I tried to cut it down a little.
The board...
Introduction
This game is a way for players of different levels to play at equal footing.
Shield
The new element in this game is the shield, which prevent a piece from being captured.
A shield can...
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Enumerations
First Pass
Weight
Balance
Slide
Interstitial 1
SSR7 Genotype
Toric Considerations
Non-retreating Pieces
Full Toric Pieces
Introduction
In...
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Archetypes
Pieces
Bestiary
Introduction
Pieces described in this series of pages form the core of shogi shortrange. They are the most numerous given...
Diagram 1
Basic Steps
Introduction
This page looks at pieces which move no more than 4 or 5 cells: the single-cell steppers, the two-cell leapers, and their compounds.
In short (pun...
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Classification Summary
Description
The size of a piece is the number of cells or positions occupied by that piece.
Attributes of size are:
Scale, Pattern, Span, Time, State
Introduction
This page presents both trigonal versions of square-based fairy pieces and pieces that are purely trigonal constructs.
Diagram 1
Hydra
Hydra
This piece can be classed as a...
Introduction
This area contains Chess Variant related software
Software Sub-sections
Bay 1 - the Games Garage
This bay contains a bunch of spaceships that crashed and burned fiercely when playtested.
Missile movement must be re-worked - missile movement should probably drop to 1...
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The span refers to the dimensions of a rectangular pattern in terms of height and width (or rank and file). Thus a piece which has a span of 1x2 occupies a...
Moves one or two squares in any direction. The S may jump over other pieces.
The first known use of this piece was in Eric Greenwood's Renniassance Chess.
Classifications: Betza = DWAF; Range =...
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The state refers to the way the number of cells or positions taken-up may vary.
Possible values are:
Constant Increasing Decreasing...
Rules
A description of this variant can be found here
An example Game
(this is an embedded zoho presentation and there may be a delay while it loads)
time
Piece Listing
or, 10k on just One Game a Day
Stop me if you've heard this one, but here's an idea for a large variant that doesn't require much new in the way of pieces or rules … just a bit of a twist in the...
Terran Chess Galactic Federation
an extract from the Encyclopaedia Galactica, print date 30-April-2353
The last 300 years
With the demise off F.I.D.E. in the mid-21st century Chess was free to...
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Welcome to the Games Garage. If you've got a variant that sputters, needs a tune-up, has broken down or just won't run at all, here's the place for it. Repairs are not guaranteed to be timely, or...
Right now, this page is a hodge-podge of notes and ideas relating to the expansion and extension of TSRP. [By the way, the actual title of this page is "Short 2: the Longer ShortRange Project"; why...
The evolution of Western chess has been toward more powerful, longrange pieces. Shortrange pieces were perceived as weak and not very effective, so were abandoned in favor of longrange pieces....
Classification Summary
Size
Description
The time refers to the movement of a piece's single cell components.
Possible values are:
Synchronous, Asynchronous
where
Synchronous
means all...
contact
Final Board
I have for now ceased dveloping this variant but it has lead to ExCoCo Chess
Inroduction
This variant is a work in progress and comments are welcome. It was inspired by Charles...
Introduction
My motivation in designing CVs is mainly concerned with the topology of the playing area or board; its shape and the shape of its cells.
Of the three regular shapes that tile the...
Introduction
The CVs presented here arose out of my investigation into Trigonal Boards
Blades - developed as a general testbed of trigonal chess ideas
Delta Chess - primarily used as an arena for...
Introduction
Proposed Board
to be continued
A bent 2-step elephantrider. Moves twice as an alfil or ferz. It slides 1 or jumps 2 squares diagonally, and then may do either again. It can move 1, 2, 3, or 4 squares in a turn. It may change...
Classification Summary
Description
The variability of a piece describes how the abilities of a piece may vary (or not vary) over the course of a game.
Attributes of variability are:
Moves, Mode,...
Moves as a dabbabah or wazir. It may slide 1 or jump 2 squares orthogonally.
Classifications: Betza = DW; Joe = D/W; Range = S,2
The wazir slides one square orthogonally. It is a colorchanging piece, capturing by replacement.
Classification: BET = W
DHTj = mono; Simple; Static; Rider
DHTg = one-step rider single displacer
This is a possible sister site to ChessVariants.org which will allow people to publish, explore, and discuss chess variant game designs in a Wiki environment. I have created this site so that the...
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
A bent 2-step rider. Moves twice as the squire. It may move 1 square or leap 2 squares orthogonally or diagonally, then may do any of the 4 possible move types again. Thus it may move 1, 2, 3, or...