Comments by TonyQuintanilla

Retrograde Chess? Like the planets, you expect a normal move, then the
weird back-swing. Quick question, how will a Pawn or King advance?

Gilbert: this is an ongoing debate. For a good introduction see Jean-Louis
Cazaux's excellent discussion at,

http://history.chess.free.fr/comparison.htm

The editors received the following correspondence from Doron Singer:

Your example claims Bxc1 wins. It, in fact, loses, which goes to show
suicide chess is deeper than what most people give it credit for.
Black's win is as follows:
1. Bxc1 g5
2. Bxg5 a6
3. Bxe7 axb5
now:
4. Bxf8 Nc6
5. Bxb5 Nd7
6. Bxd7 Ra3
7. Bxa3 b4
8. Bxb4
0-1

or:
5. Bxc5 Ra3

if:
6. Bxf8 Nd7 and so on
and if:
6. Bxa3 Nc6 and so on.

Doron.

Glinski page in Spanish posted. 

See all languages: 
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/whatsnewalllang.php

'I wish to state a variant based on the current listed variant called 'Three Handed Chess'. My version is exactly the same layout, conditions and reasoning as 'Three Handed' except for the variation rules to eliminate ganging up on the third man.

'My method is that when attacking the man on the right and removing a piece, you get to remove the same piece from the man on the left as well. This has two effects; it shortens an otherwise very long playing game, and it means no player can afford to ignore his best chance of winning, i.e. attacking his '2 for one target', the man on the right. Also you can never trust the man on your left to leave you alone for very long. You are just too good of a target.

'Notice also that attacking is of higher value than defense. But at some point, you must try and slow your attacker down. This is a fast, aggressive game.

'However, there is one more rule; after a check, if a possible check-mate exists and the third player has not had a turn between the check and the failure of the victim to escape, the third player is guaranteed one last move to break the check-mate. If he succeeds, play continues in the normal direction from the 'third' player.'

Gary, I've used sculpy too, but how do you make sure you get a smooth and
even split when making the 2 mold halves? It's a nice and simple idea. As
you mentioned, the colors are very nice and come in a large variety. Do you
have pictures? Thanks.

Happy New Year! Thanks to David for all his work to keep this site going
(especially the difficult site maintenance necessities).

Chess is far from dead. As far as I know, no computer can yet *enjoy* a
game of Chess! Example: my kid enjoys tic-tac-toe, another 'dead' game?!

Jeremy, thanks to you too for all your contributions, especially the
presets!

Mats, this is an interesting item. Could you create a link page for it?

Perhaps it's time to close this group? We have the Comments and Game
Courier for forums.

This page was originally meant to simply present some images that could be used with Zillions of Games. Here are some other links that may be of interest:

• Jean-Louis Cazaux's page on the pieces (he calls the 'Rook' a 'Warder'): http://history.chess.free.fr/lewis.htm
• Drawings of the pieces, along with other images about the locality where they were found: http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/museum/gallery.htm
• British Museum page on the pieces (notice the teeth on that berserker 'Warder'): http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/online_tours/britain/our_top_ten_british_treasures/the_lewis_chessmen.aspx
• Photo of the display at the British Museum (5th image from the top): http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/England2004/BritishMuseum4.html
• Page from the National Museums Scotland: http://www.nms.ac.uk/lewischesspieces.aspx
• Wikipedia page on the pieces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
• Phenomenal high resolution image (2.86 mb) of the Lewis King from the 2006 Auckland Museum Viking exhibition: http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/site_resources/Vikings/3_-_Lewis_chess_king.jpg

Abdul, Jeremy: I have added the board image as a new Game Courier 'Background' called 38squares.gif. Here is a very rough preset using my Hexes Chess preset as a starting point, but you will have to redefine the coordinates for the spaces. Obviously, these coordinates are for the Hexes Chess hexagonal board.