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Week ending Jun 21, 2006

• A Cornucopia of 9x9 Corner variants. The title speaks for itself. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Charles Gilman.
• Chess/Xianqi/Shogi Tournament #1. First Chess-Xiangqi-Shogi Tournament. The second round starts this Saturday. Author: Antoine Fourrière.

Week ending Jun 14, 2006

• Archabbott Chess. Introduces the Archabbott piece which moves like Bishop + Wazir + Dababa. (12x8, Cells: 96) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Eric Greenwood.
• Descent Chess. Kaufmann's drop variant. Begins with only K + P + P. Recommendable! (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Mats Winther. Inventor: Andreas Kaufmann.
• Twinmove Chess (uncompelled). Double move variant where a pawn can, optionally, be moved first. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Twinmove-Chess (compulsory). Double move variant where a pawn must be moved first. (This is like a pistol held to your head.). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Swedish Chess. Drop chess with regular pieces. Pieces dropped can relocate friendly pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Randompawns Chess. (Chess256) Only the pawns are randomized, on the 2nd and 3rd rank. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Elephant Chess. Featuring the time-honoured Burmese Elephant. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Monadchess . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Step by Step Handicap Chess . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Mastodon Chess. Standard pieces plus two Mastodons per side. A strategical big-board variant. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Mats Winther.
• Elk Chess. The double-barrelled Elk moves differently depending on square colour. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Mastodon Chess (8x10). Standard pieces plus two Mastodons per side. A strategical big-board variant. (10x8, Cells: 80) By Mats Winther.
• Scorpion Chess. Poisonous Scorpions instead of pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Dromedary Chess. Pieces adjacent to the King can leap like a Dromedary (Camel). (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Dragon Chess (tm). Commercial board game played on a large board with a new piece -- the Dragon. (16x10, Cells: 124) By Lex Parker.
• Undecided Chess. Undecided Pawns change into orthodox pieces by moving like them. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
• Schach-B. One selected from among the Fischer Random boards, also known as Fischer Random position # 542. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Mats Winther.
• Dimension X. Unusual transdimensional pieces interact with FIDE Chess. (8x8x2, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Hopper-Chess. Pieces in front of friendly pieces can land immediately behind enemy pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Mats Winther.
• Jetan Jeddara. Large variant of Jetan. (16x12, Cells: 192) Author: Tony Quintanilla and James Killian Spratt. Inventor: James Killian Spratt.
• Dimension X. (8x8x2, Cells: 128) By Gary K. Gifford.
• Monadchess. 10 x 10 setup with Capablanca-esque pieces and cannons and extra pawns and pieces designed to make flanks safer. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• MonadChess. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Yin Yang Principle and Chess(continuation of Optimal Design ..). (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Three Elephants Chess. War Towers destroy 3 spaces at a time - Protect your elephants while capturing your opponent's! (9x9, Cells: 81) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Jetan Jeddara. Large Jetan variant, with new pieces. (16x12, Cells: 192) Author: Tony Quintanilla and James Killian Spratt. Inventor: James Killian Spratt.
• Knight-Pawn Chess. Elegant chess game with knight-pawns that can move as pawns midway up the board if they find themselves behind it. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Matthew Montchalin.
• Byelorussian Chesskers. Pieces promote to "Damkas" in this Chess Checkers Hybrid. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Uwe Wiedemann and N. N. Grushevsky.
• Wey. Another variant in the same family as Avon, Cam, Isis, and Kennet. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.
• I'm a Ferz, Get Me Into There!. Inspired by title of Chas. Gilman's game, "I'm a Wazir, Get Me Out of Here!" Object is to get your Ferz to Z5. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Games for Game Courier. Updated lists of most popular games played on Game Courier. Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Approval Poll for Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games you want in the third Game Courier tournament. Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games should be in the third Game Courier tournament. Author: Fergus Duniho.
• Tutti-Frutti Chess. With bishop-knight, knight-rook, queen-knight and the usual pieces on an 8 by 8 board. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza and Philip M. Cohen.
• En Passant Chess of Ingo Althofer. This is just FIDE Chess, but with board contracted by one row. Try it out. (8x7, Cells: 56) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ingo Althofer.
• Perfect Chess. Like Tutti Frutti Chess but with a different array. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Köksal Karakus.
• Two Pipe Chess. Cute little variant -- board looks like two pipes addorsed (and rectangle in the middle). Beware of ambitious pawns. (9x5, Cells: 41) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Doug Chatham.
• Hafts. A denser Draughts, but with pieces only capturing those bound to the opposite colour. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Charles Gilman.

Week ending Jun 07, 2006

• Pompeii Chess. Small variant with piece drops, orthogonal pawn moves and one each of all the FIDE pieces. (9x9, Cells: 25) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Dan Troyka.
• Stuck in the Middle with You. 3 Different Boards and 3 Different Armies! (8x8x3, Cells: 192) By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Grand Warp Point Chess. Using normal chess pieces, plus two warp points, on a 10 x 10 board where pawns can take large initial steps. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jason Shields.
• Dueling Archbishops. Chess game with only six cells but with a piece that morphs into four different forms. (2x3, Cells: 6) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jason D. Wittman.
• Knight Court Chess. When you take an opponent's piece, he gets to drop it back on the board. Object: Checkmate knight. (3x3, Cells: 9) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jason D. Wittman.
• Mid-evil Chess. Adds a Prince (combines the moves of queen and knight) to Capablanca's array by eliminating one knight... (10x8, Cells: 80) By Stephen R. Stockman.
• Black Hole Chess. Game with missing center and two extra spaces just behind the kings. (10x12, Cells: 100) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: David Short.
• Azsymchess . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Flying Armies . (8x8, Cells: 64) By Christine Bagley-Jones.
• Bomberman Chess. Two "bombs" and a "defuser" spice up this 10 x 8 game. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Bryan Lambert.
• I'm a Wazir, Get Me Out of Here. Game composed of just wazirs and pawns. Wazirs, prone to special disappearing rule. Object : Get rid of your wazirs. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
• Ladorean Chess. Another 10 x 8 Fergus Duniho variant with marshall and cardinal. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Fergus Duniho.
• Archbishop Chess. Replace one of the marshalls from birds chess with a cardinal and you have Dominique Leste's Archbishop Chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Dominique Leste.
• Janus Chess. popular, well known 10 x 8 with two cardinals. (10x8, Cells: 80) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Werner Schoendorf.
• Big Chess. Ordinary chess pieces on an elongated 8 x 14 board with three times as many bishops and two times as many knights. (14x8, Cells: 112) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Sergey Sirotkin.
• Minishogi. "A Minishogi Association has existed (and may still exist?) in Osaka." There has never been a Tic Tac Toe Association in Omaha. (5x5, Cells: 25) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Shigenobu Kusumo.
• Grand Shogi. Normal Shogi but with extra pieces - "Smooth and fantastic fun, awesome action". (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Christine Bagley-Jones.
• Half Chess of Ralph Betza. Exactly like halfling chess, only the knights are replaced by crabs, making them more compatible with half moving rider pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Vortex Chess. Similar to Warp Point Chess only with "portals" that are more dynamic and split between the two players... (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Robert LeRoy.
• Mesmer Chess. Introduces a new piece, the mesmerist, which can control how opposing pieces move. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Dan Troyka.
• Blue Chip Chess. Fun variant where each turn you get to create an off-limits square for your opponent . (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Neal Turner.
• Shatranj Kamil. Shatranj Kamil or "Perfect Chess" a historical variant combining alfils, camels rooks and ferz. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Shatranj Al-Husun - Citadel Chess. Historical variant of Shatranj. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Shoxiang 108. A combination of Shogi and Xiang Qi on a number of ranks divisible by both 2 and 3. (9x12, Cells: 108) By Charles Gilman.
• Azsymchess1024 . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Three Elephant Chess. War Towers destroy 3 spaces at a time - protect your elephants while capturing your opponent's. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Gary K. Gifford.

Week ending May 31, 2006

• Paired Piece Tunnelchess. A new approach to the Tunnelchess first rank. (4x8x4, Cells: 128) By Charles Gilman.
• Elite Chess. Elite Chess adds an Amazon to Capablanca's Game by adding one more row to the board. (8x11, Cells: 88) By Stephen R. Stockman.
• Diagonal 3D Chess. (8x8x8, Cells: 512) By Dan Beyer.
• Optimum design of a Chess variant. By Namik Zade.
• Make own Army and Handicap Azsymchess . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Poll for June 2006's Recognized Variant of the Month. Vote for next month's recognized variant of the month before this month ends. Author: Fergus Duniho.
• QB Goes East 162 squares. Quadruple Besiege versions of Shogi, Xiang Qi, and offshoots using double sets on 2 9x9 boards. (Cells: 162) By Charles Gilman.
• Sino-European Chess . (9x9, Cells: 81) By Andy Thomas.
• Sino-European Chess. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Andy Thomas.
• The Clash of Civilizations Chess (Updated) . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• QB Goes East 98 squares. Quadruple Besiege versions of Shogi, Xiang Qi, and offshoots using single sets on 2 7x7 boards. (Cells: 98) By Charles Gilman.
• 3D CHESS w/ NEW PAWN DESIGN. 3D CHESS DOWNLOAD. (8x8x8, Cells: 512) By Dan Beyer.
• Gigachess. With 20 different pieces on a 14 x 14 board, this is the latest in a sequence from Shako to Tamerlane II to Perfect 12. (14x14, Cells: 196) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Perfect 12. 12 different kinds of pieces on a 12 x 12 board: Is 12 "more perfect" than 10? (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Super Maharadscha . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• SSShess . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• DropSSShess . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Shuffle Version Azchess . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Toulaisain Chess. 12 x 12 with 12 different pieces, Cazaux dedicates this one to his town of Toulouse. (12x12, Cells: 144) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Wild Tamerlane Chess. This variant replaces a couple weaker pieces from Tamerlane II with stronger queen and griffin pieces. (11x11, Cells: 121) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
• Tamerlane Chess. Chess game said to have been favored, perhaps even invented, by ruler Timur the Lame in the 14th c. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Tamerlane II. Cazaux's modern take on Tamerlane Chess. (11x11, Cells: 121) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.

Week ending May 24, 2006

• Ibu Ibu Chess. Introduces the concept of a King's entourage, making King powerful and protected. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Ibu Ibu Chess. Ibu Ibu Chess in which the king's entourage protects it from Ubi-Ubis. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Royal Magician's Chess. King and special magician piece earn the right to drop pieces when they venture out to the fourth, fifth and sixth ranks! (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• 3D Chess. A true 3D version of chess. (8x8x8, Cells: 512) By Dan Beyer.
• Interactive 3D Chess Program. (8x8x8, Cells: 512) By Dan Beyer.
• Royal Magician's Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Gary K. Gifford.
• AzsymChess. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Jetan Variant Graphics. James Spratt's graphics for Jetan variant Game Courier presets. Author: James Killian Spratt.
• Azchess (absolute symmery pawn protection). Adds cannons to Az Chess and reverses the positions of some of the pieces to maximize pawn protection. (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Cannons of Chesstonia. Cannons on the sides of the board can "fire" new pieces into the game. (8x12, Cells: 80) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Gary K. Gifford.
• Cannons of Chesstonia. Cannons launch a Pawn, Wazir, Ferz and Stone to increase strategical and tactical play. (12x8, Cells: 80) By Gary K. Gifford.
• 4 x 4 x 8 Tridimensional Chess. Clever 3-D variant, closer to Raumschach, but according to Gilman, solves some of Raumschach's design flaws. (16x8x4, Cells: 128) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Alberto Monteiro and Silvio Levy.
• Betza's Flying Circus. 4 Levels but only four pieces of two kinds can move on three of the levels. (8x8x4, Cells: 64) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
• Moderate Progressive Chess. A player may move one more piece than his opponent just moved. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
• Seenschach. Crooked Bishops, Reflecting Bishops, Harvesters and Hornets navigate around a giant central abyss. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Jörg Knappen.
• Quadruple Besiege Chess. Toroidal Variant with piece movements defined by stretches. (16x8, Cells: 128) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
• Raumschach. "... (German for Space Chess) is one of the first three-dimensional chess variants and the first to survive until present". (5x5x5, Cells: 125) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Dr. Ferdinand Maack.
• Electrum Chess. All the Goldchess and Silverchess back-rank pieces in a single variant. (9x9, Cells: 81) By Charles Gilman.

Week ending May 17, 2006

• Azchess . (10x10, Cells: 100) By Namik Zade.
• Gess. Combines GO with Chess: Invention of Archimedeans Mathematics Society, discussed by Ian Stewart in Scientific American. (19x19, Cells: 361) Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Archimedeans Mathematics Society.
• Fabulous Flying Kittens. Toroidally interwoven board using same number of squares and pieces as FIDE Chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Jeremy Gabriel Good.
• Pretentious Chess. Pieces can move as and demote to a Knight. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
• Mighty Like a Rose. A Systematic Set of Names for Pieces following Curved, Crooked, and Bent Paths. Author: Charles Gilman.

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