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| | Chess variant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | There are variants for three players or five players (pentachiavel). | | | Colour chess: A family of alternative chess games that uses the same moves as traditional chess but changed from a competitive to a cooperative game. | | | Capablanca chess: a few game variations played on a 10×8 or 10×10 board with two new pieces: Chancellor (Rook+Knight) and Archbishop (Bishop+Knight). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variant
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| | Talk:Chess variant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Correspondence chess and playing on the Internet are different ways to play Chess, not different games. | | | Since postal chess requires an alteration of the rules of chess (notably rules 1.1, 4.1 and 12.2) it is a variant. | | | Parachuting chess pieces onto a board, or electing to make a move with a piece already landed, is one of the earliest versions of chess where players tried to escape the 'book' and base their play purely on natural ability. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chess_variant
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| | Home page of The Chess Variant Pages |
| | Today, the game chess as we know it, has remarkable differences from the original game. | | | The most played variants are Shogi (in Japan), and Xiangqi (in China). | | | At the same time, in different parts of this world, different chess games are played. |
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http://www.chessvariants.com
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| | Chess Variants |
| | Conversely, a chess variant in which each player has 500 pieces, or in which the existing pieces are affected by dozens of special rules, would be merely tiresome. | | | Most of us know how to play chess, but not everybody knows that there are many, many ways to play chess. | | | Escher Staircase is also a variant that can be played with an ordinary board and pieces. |
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http://www.musicwords.net/games/games.htm
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| | Chess Directory > Variants |
| | In this chess variant, the players maneuver pieces in an attempt to capture their opponent's. | | | Transform Board Game - To win the game there have to be at least two Kings Cubes on the playing board and the first player to land his kings cube on the MK square wins the game. | | | Bishops, A Chess Variant - Bishops is a new, unique four player Chess Variant. |
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http://www.chess.freegames.eu.com/directory/variants
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| | 1999 Large Chess Variant Contest Index |
| | Vyrémorn Chess is a fantasy chess variant designed with the relatively unique feature of being played diagonally on a board of two overlapping square areas, using both new and traditional pieces. | | | The first was Scirocco, a 10 x 10 chess variant, and the second was Typhoon, a 12 x 12 variant. | | | The CirSquare game boards are the first to combine a circular chess board with a square chess board. |
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http://www.frontiernet.net/~alcove/chess/largecontestindex1.html
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| | Chess Variants |
| | Chess game with an exciting twist: PI Team Chess Game features a multiple player chess game for classrooms, chess clubs, homeschoolers, and the whole family to play. | | | CHESS - 4 Player Chess and 4 Play Checkers by Chessapeak: where Chess Players ENJOY PLAYING to IMPROVE their CHESS Skills. | | | CHESS - 2, 3 or 4 Player Chess and Checkers games by Chessapeak |
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http://www.academicchess.com/contact/linkspages/chess-variants.htm
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| | Introducing Variant Chess |
| | Orthodox chess and most variants are games for two players. | | | Variant using a second board, initially empty; after a move on one board the moved piece is transferred to the corresponding cell on the other board; this cell must be vacant, or the move cannot go ahead; kings may not move through check. | | | Chess in which the number of moves played per go increases by one at each turn; thus white plays one move, black two, white three, black four and so on. |
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http://homepages.stayfree.co.uk/gpj/gvc.htm
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| | Great Ches Variant Software and Beyond |
| | Many strong chess players have found Shogi to be a great game to play. | | | One of the greatest strategy games in the world, Japanese Chess rarely finishes as a draw (less than one in a hundred games). | | | Go, called "baduk" in Korean and "wei-chi" in Chinese, is a 4,000 year-old game of strategy played by more than 100 million people. |
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http://www.chesscentral.com/beyond_chess/software.htm
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| | CPB: The Evolution of Chess by Lex Kraaijeveld |
| | Chess as a game is similar to a biological species or a language in that it can evolve (and obviously, this holds for board games in general). | | | If such a new chess 'species' improves the play in the eyes of the players, the new variant will replace the old one, which may go extinct. | | | There is a large body of literature on the origin and evolution of chess and chess-like games; much larger than on all other board games put together. |
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http://www.cpb.bio.ic.ac.uk/staff/kraaijeveld/lexchess.html
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| | Varying Chess |
| | In orthodox Chess, if a player has no legal move and his king is not in check, the game is a draw. | | | Castling in orthodox Chess allows the player a chance to build a shelter for the king, but in Ur chess not only is there no castling, the pawns are moved forward, leaving a huge space behind them, which is hard to defend. | | | These three rules together constituted what I called "Renormalized Chess." But I never played it; it struck me as a half-measure—not enough of a different game to constitute a "real" chess variant. |
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http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/VaryingChess.shtml
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| | Chess Variant Club |
| | Chess Game with a different strategy.Played in colour.This variant chess game has a unique approach.When Pieces capture they both leave the board.Finish the game with the least moves. | | | Kaissa similar to Chess but is played with more pieces on a larger board. | | | The revolutionary innovation that XYMYX proposes does not modify importantly the rules of Classic Chess (you play in the same chessboard and whit the same pieces and movements), but it presents changes that place the players in the most egalitarian possible enviroment and creates new options that make the game more dynamic and complex. |
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http://groups.msn.com/ChessVariantClub/variantlinks.msnw
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| | Chess Variant Applets |
| | Number of players is probably comparable to FIDE chess players. | | | Proprietary game with board 10x10 and four suits of chess cards. | | | Progressive Circe chess, units returning as in the standard non-progressive game, waiting if necessary until the square becomes open. |
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http://www.pathguy.com/chess/ChessVar.htm
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| | CHIVALROUS ATTRITION: A CHESS VARIANT |
| | A player is removed from the game when his or her game piece is taken by another player with a standard chess knight's move, or when he or she is unable to move without landing on a space with a marker on it. | | | There are 2 variations of the standard 2 player game, & both involve each player using an additional game piece. | | | Each player uses 1 chess piece that is distinct from the others being used by either hue or type. |
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http://www.puzz.com/chess.html
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| | Infinite Chess, a Chess variant with a Figure 8 chess board - Chess with a New Twist |
| | Infinite Chess is a chess variant that recreates the most popular and widely played game of all time. | | | Infinite Chess becomes a battle for mastering the central grid, for who ever rules this strategic area has twice the striking power. | | | Bishops can leap from one loop to another in certain strategic spots or even move in a full circle in other spots. |
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http://www.infinitechess.com/ichess.htm
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| | MindZine - Chess Variants |
| | Progressive Chess is the variant where White begins the game with one move, then Black plays two moves, then White plays three and so on. | | | Fans of Hexagonal Chess, the chess variant invented by Wladyslaw Glinski in the 1930s, will be pleased to know that the game is still being played actively in Eastern Europe. | | | Gothic Chess is played on a 10x8 board. |
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http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/chess/chessvari.html
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| | Fischer Random Chess / Chess960 / FullChess |
| | Fischer random chess allows each player to castle once per game, a move by potentially both the king and rook in a single move. | | | However, a few interpretations of standard chess games rules are needed for castling, because the standard rules presume initial locations of the rook and king that are often untrue in Fischer Random Chess games. | | | To correctly record a Fischer Random Chess game in PGN, an additional "Variant" tag must be used to identify the rules; the rule named "Fischerandom" is accepted by many chess programs as identifying Fischer Random Chess. |
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http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/Fischer_Random_Chess.html
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| | Index page of The Chess Variant Pages |
| | Chess with 3, 4, 6, 7 or any number of players. | | | Variants that borrow ideas or rules from, or combine with other games. | | | Looking to buy some chess variant games or books? |
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http://www.chessvariants.com/Gindex.html
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| | Transcendental Chess |
| | What a contrast with Transcendental Chess, in which opening strategy is alive and well, in which the battle begins immediately in an unpredictable position, where a player is on his own from the very first move.. | | | Orthochess opening innovations are virtually extinct, opening strategy in orthodox correspondence chess is a relic of the past, and the real orthochess battle begins when the position is practically sterile. | | | You play your opponent two games, one as white and one as black. |
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http://members.aol.com/tranchess
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| | Wired News: Unorthodox Chess From an Odd Mind |
| | The opening phase of a chess game as currently played has been subject to a hundred years of scholarship and play, and today players are hard pressed to find so much as a viable pawn push within the first 20 moves that hasn't been thoroughly analyzed. | | | Fischer then vanished from the chess world for years, re-emerging in 1992 to play and win a reunion match against Spassky, for a reported purse of $5 million. | | | rules of Chess960 are mostly the same as orthodox chess -- but the setup incorporates something once considered anathema to the game: chance. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68227,00.html
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| | Alice Chess |
| | The best sort of variant,” unfortunately for my case he goes on to say “but maybe too difficult for me. I've only played one game and that gave me nightmares!” It does take one into a chess dream-world where the logic is disturbingly different from normal and space is strangely distorted. | | | There is essentially only one rule-change from orthodox chess: (1) A second board is used, initially empty, and after a move, on either board, the moved piece is transferred to the square with the same coordinates on the other board. | | | Note that the knight b8, bishop c8 and pawn c7 cannot stop the check by interposing, since they are immediately whisked off to the second board, and the black queen cannot interpose at d7 since its move is blocked on the second board by the pawn d6. |
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http://www.bcvs.ukf.net/alice.htm
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| | Symmetrical Chess Collection |
| | I was hopeful that eventually, a large set of correctly-defined quality criteria relevant to chess variants would emerge which would allow no more than one game to be invented despite my great efforts, experience and imagination toward designing numerous games in compliance with any given set of quality criteria. | | | I have always believed that out of an infinite number of possible, playable chess variants which could be invented, a single, best, perfect game existed in the imaginary-yet-real, theoretical realm of perfection, waiting to be discovered. | | | The so-called Symmetrical Chess Collection has consisted of 20-50 ever-changing games in response to an ever-increasingly long list of quality criteria since one year after I began until one year before I finished. |
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http://www.symmetryperfect.com/shots
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| | knighttour's Chess Links Page |
| | I hope that one day a chess server will come about in which all of them may be played. | | | For serious chess players who want to learn some theory, I recommend picking up a few books on tactics (hopefully ones that have a lot of puzzles and exercizes to get your mind in shape), a book on endgame theory, and a book of openings. | | | It is another large chess server though, so I figured I'd mention it for completeness. |
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http://www.knighttour.org
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| | Chess Variants by Joao Pedro Neto |
| | Variations on Go - my variants around the game of GO Abstract Games Magazine - the name says it all! | | | There are lots of people that agree with me and there are several hundreds (thousands?) of different games based on chess, called chess variants (CV's). | | | MindSports - An arena for abstract and board game players. |
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http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/cv
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| | RPGchess - A Chess Variant by Patrick Mulcahy |
| | The effective strategy of play is different to normal chess though. | | | RPGchess is a 'Turn-based' 2-player game - just like normal chess. | | | The game might still have a couple of (non-critical) bugs, but it plays well and is (I think) a lot of fun. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/patrickm/rpgchessdl.htm
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| | Tile Chess |
| | In Tile Chess, the traditional chess pieces move across a virtual "board" of ever-changing size and shape. | | | Discuss Tile Chess in the Steve Jackson Games Forums. | | | It's even more portable than chess - there is no board, and the tiles will fit in a pocket. |
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http://www.sjgames.com/tilechess
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| | Double Chess for Palm OS® handhelds |
| | The new rules for the medieval variant are available. | | | It is easy to play a quick game of either regular or double chess. | | | The demo allows you to play up to 5 games to try out the program. |
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http://www.nonvi.com/palm_chess.html
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| | Chromopolis, a Colorful Chess Variant |
| | Kings and knights (yes, that's a knight, not a penguin,) move just as in standard chess and apply force to the same squares that they could (if the board were otherwise empty,) move to. | | | Here's a little game that explores some of the consequences that a couple of quirky rules can have on the concepts of color and colorboundedness in a chess variant. | | | At the start of the game, the board is setup as in the diagram above. |
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http://www.xprt.net/~munizao/games/chromopolis.html
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| | Knightmare Chess! |
| | Knightmare Chess is chess played with cards - and what cards! | | | Each card is assigned a point value, so you can build custom decks based on an agreed point total, or handicap the match so the better player has fewer powerful cards. | | | Discuss Knightmare Chess in the Steve Jackson Games Forums. |
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http://www.sjgames.com/knightmare
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| | Companies - Specializing - Chess Variant Software |
| | Specializes in: adventure, strategic, chess, medieval, shooting, strategy, king s revenge, maze, chess variant, downloadable, wargame, variant, mediaeval, arcade, war game, kings revenge, kingsrevenge, kids, puzzle, king vindictus, turn based, vindictus rex, action, king s revenge game, medieaval, kings revenge game | | | Specializes in: submarines, chess, space combat, moo2, warships, space strategy games, win95, battleships, starships, starship combat, combat games | | | Specializes in: games, newklear, chess, strategy, snes, apps, blue dragon, free, freeware, amiga, school, platform, megadrive, classic, shikun, newklear studios, skool, multimedia, sega, applications, puzzle, game, cards, fishhead, spiderhead, download, atari |
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| | 1999 Large Chess Variant Contest Journal |
| | Both games are available either at Hans' site, or in the installable download from the Alternate Chess Variants page. | | | Perfect 12, by Jean-Louis Cazaux, Bishops, a 3 or 4 player variant by EJW consulting, and Double Chess, a 2 board variant by David Short. | | | His latest implementations are Omega Chess (download here) and Bomberman (which should be appearing soon on Hans' website and in the downloadable Large Variant contest Zillions pack). |
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| | Chess Empire |
| | An exciting and fast paced chess game with new strategies and more to think about but the with same ultimate goal - to checkmate your opponent or opponents king. | | | two to four player chess game with more pieces, more squares, and a new chess piece called the " | | | is the first chess variant board game to be endorsed by the "U.S. Chess Federation"! |
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http://www.chessempire.net
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| | Chess variant software |
| | A large variety of popular and exotic games and tournaments are offer on our site. |
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http://officialbackgamon.com/chess-variant-software
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| | Johanes' chess page |
| | Duif's Place: Chess for Fans and Tournament Players | | | BrainKing.com - play online chess and other popular board games | | | So You Want to Play Chess (Jeremy's Website) |
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http://www.nd.edu/~johanes/chess.html
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| | Steve Jackson Games Forums - Knightmare Chess Variant... |
| | Steve Jackson Games Forums - Knightmare Chess Variant... | | | Steve Jackson Games Forums > Board and Card Games > Chess Games | | | Does anyone out there have a "3 Dimensional Chess Board" like from the old Star Trek series? |
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http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=735
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| | New Variant Of Chess |
| | For 500 years the rules of traditional chess have been unchanged. | | | I'll stick with Go thanks...no human mind has made a perfect software representation of this 4000 year old game. | | | Nowadays the supremacy of the machine over the human mind has been proved in chess; XYMYX proposes a new way of playing chess, where using the same tools of traditional chess, the human mind is considered the main potential. |
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http://www.canadiancontent.net/forums/about6283.html
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| | ChessManiac.com -- Free -- Play Chess Online! Internet chess games. |
| | Many group members play online chess games and even study books on the subject to enhance their skills. | | | Lierman said the serious players are very technical about their game. | | | Play chess online, free online chess games, tournaments,teams, chess clubs and more. |
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http://www.chessmaniac.com
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| | Chess - Essential Links to Chess |
| | University of Pittsburgh FTP Chess Site - Free games of all levels | | | Chess Live On The Net - Moves explained, best games, beginner's page | | | Club Kasparov - A playing zone, news, analysis, events, and more |
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http://www.el.com/elinks/chess
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| | US Chess Federation |
| | Duif's Place: The Guide for Chess Fans and New Tournament Players | | | Richard's Play By Email Server (email chess server) | | | [Tournaments] [Top Players] [Clubs] [Scholastic] [Correspondence Chess] [Links] [Governance] |
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http://www.uschess.org/org/sources.html
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| | Pawns Unite |
| | Story Telling Chess Variant -Charles Cameron of HipBone Games | | | Story Telling Chess Variant - Charles Cameron of HipBone Games | | | Charles is working in the field of analytical games and contacted me after coming across Rethinking Wargames while working on an article about games, war and peace. |
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http://www.journalscape.com/pawns_unite/2003-10-23-17:25
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| | 3 MAN CHESS variant in the round |
| | Finally, a Chess variant board has been developed that accommodates three players, without compromising ANY of the rules, strategies, or competitive challenges that make Chess the best board game in the world. | | | The only changes from conventional chess are some protocol issues that must be followed to maintain order where the teams border each other, which is simple and necessary. | | | Also, please notice that the trajectory lines orienting from the outer rank, are simply visual aids to help guide diagonal moves passing through the center. |
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http://www.3manchess.com
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| | Chess Variant Club |
| | I believe that variants did improve my play and kept my thoughts fresh and flexible.....Many people run in footraces although automobiles can go faster. | | | "I think that the Internet will inevitably introduce chess to more players but I forsee chess variants, because of their novelty, benefitting in particular from publicity on the net. | | | Interested in starting a Chess Variant chapter in your area? |
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http://groups.msn.com/ChessVariantClub
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| | Correspondence chess, checkers, reversi, stack4 at atlanticgames.net |
| | The official sanctioning body for over the board tournament play in the US Part of the NORTH AMERICA/PACIFIC ZONE (NAPZ) | | | A mathematically-sound introduction to the universe of chess variants | | | Well, everyday you will find here new free chess problems. |
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http://www.atlanticchess.com/links.asp?x=1
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| | OMEGA CHESS - The Next Evolution of Chess! |
| | Go to our games page to view this exciting Omega Chess | | | OMEGA CHESS - The Next Evolution of Chess! | | | For GM Rohde's chess courses and commentary click here |
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http://www.omegachess.com
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| | Melee Chess (Variant I) |
| | Melee Chess (Variant I) Melee Chess (Variant I) | | | This is a version of Melee Chess with the citadels in front of the king. | | | If you had a Java-capable browser, you could play Melee Chess here. |
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http://www.pathguy.com/chess/MeleeCh2.htm
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| | Variant Chess |
| | Links to other sites of Variant Chess interest. | | | News and Notices: News and Notices of the Society, including details of the most recently published VC Articles on particular chess variants with rules, illustrative problems, and example games. | | | A Guide to Variant Chess GPJ Variant Chess Pages |
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