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Kriegspiel is a game information page. It is categorized as: Two dimensional, War game, Hidden information.
Kriegspiel. (8x8x3, Cells: 192) (Recognized!)
This more than one century old chess variant has a steady group of enthousiastic players and three books written on it. Playing Kriegspiel well may not be easy, but rewarding. The complexity comes in this variant from the fact that there are many things about the position you cannot know, but some you can guess or deduce. Kriegspiel is often played over the board, with help of a referee, but also on chess servers on the Internet. It is occasionally used as a theme in fairy chess problem compositions.
The board used for this game has 8 row(s), 8 column(s), 3 levels/boards, 192 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.
File size: | 5.16k |
File modified: | August 23 2004 08:50:24 PM |
Creation Date: | 1996-03-01 |
Modified Date: | 1996-03-01 |
Author: | Hans L. Bodlaender [info] |
Inventor: | Henry Michael Temple [info] |
URL: | incinf.dir/kriegspiel.html |
Date | Name | Rating | Comment | Edit |
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Kriegspiel. (8x8x3, Cells: 192) (Recognized!) | ||||
Jim Humberd | None | Here is a story about Kreigspiel , as found on my web site at http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/003629.shtml, a portion of my “Computer Memories,” as found on my Travel-Tidbits.com site. This took place over 40 years ago. | View [*] | |
Michael Howe | None | No need to feel foolish, Roberto. We CV enthusiasts were the most foolable, because we know that Kriegspiel is a real variant that has been studied and played extensively. I'm glad that the M-Tel no-draw-offer story was real, and apparently a lot of readers though that IT was also an April Fool's story! | Edit View [*] | |
Roberto Lavieri | None | Oh, no!. From Chessbase: 'April 1st: Forbidden draws or Kriegspiel tournament? 03.04.2005 It happens to us, year after year. We always forget that at the beginning of this month people are celebrating a pagan ritual known as 'April Fool'...'. I have to admit: it was perfectly elaborated, not only the browser-friendly tables of scores, but photos and annotated high level games. Good job, and I feel foolish. | Edit View [*] | |
Michael Howe | None | If so, it's a very elaborate one, complete with browser-friendly game scores. I guess we'll find out next week, when they either do or do not report the results of the next rounds! | Edit View [*] | |
pax | None | I suspect the 'Amber Kriegspiel' is Chessbase's April fools joke. There is no mention of it on the official site, and it is hard to see 12 top GMs spending 12 days playing kriegspiel (a couple of days exhibitin maybe). | View [*] | |
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Group ID 'Kriegspiel'