Chess Variants Software
and Beyond
Chess variants are an exciting way to expand your passion. Knowledge of chess
and its strategies will give you a good foundation to excel at chess variants.
These strategy games will get you thinking in new ways that will make you
see chess in a whole new light.
Software Program ............. $89.95
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. Go was considered one
of the Four Great Accomplishments of ancient China, one of the worthy pursuits
of a lifetime - along with poetry, archery, and calligraphy. It is both an art
and a mental workout - ingeniously disguised as a game. Anyone, from children of
five or six to people in their nineties, can play and enjoy Go!
Click here to learn more about the Many faces of GO
and start a new passion.
Chess Variant
Software Program .............. $24.95
Chaturanga, played in India, in or before the 7th century A.D., is
the oldest known form of chess. Easier to
learn than chess, Chaturanga's play develops faster and reversal of fortunes can
occur suddenly. The alliances feature gives it a Machiavellian aspect missing
from common chess. Click here to
discover more about the Mother of all War-Games, Chaturanga.
Chess Variant
Software Program .............. $24.95
One of the greatest strategy games in the
world, Japanese Chess rarely finishes as a draw (less than one in a hundred
games). Since captured enemy pieces can be dropped back into the game on your
own side, the endgame is not a slow tedious process as in common chess, but a
dash for checkmate! Pieces can drop into empty squares near to the enemy Shogun,
and the essence of the game is to spot such mating attacks. Many strong chess
players have found Shogi to be a great game to play. Although played by millions
in Japan, so far it is not so well known outside Japan.
Click here to discover more about the ultimate in Japanese chess - Shogi.
Enochian
Chess
Chess Variant
Software Program .............. $24.95
This game incorporates the outer-order knowledge of the Golden Dawn hermetic
order and subsumes other divination systems such as Tarot, Geomancy, and
Astrology. Enochian (Rosicrucian) Chess provides a complete method of
self-initiation into the Western mystery tradition. Click
here to learn more about Enochian Chess.
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