Comments by dandolovenice

I think this version is better than other Turkish Great Chess. 

Qalmaqini ,armed women, moves like a Shogi Pawn. Can Qalmaqini be promoted when reaching in the last rank?

Who do know Kilyow (´Ñ»â)?


Invented by Furugouri Akio(¥j°p³¹¶¯) in 1991, the Shogi variant is played
like standard shogi, including the drops and promotion rules, except the
different move of pieces and the following rules:

1. The Pawn can be dropped to give an immediate checkmate.

2. All the promoted pieces cannot be dropped into the broad.  

3. The King cannot move into the rank(row) where the opponent King now
stays.

For more information, please see http://www.kilyow.com/

I had implemented the Shogi variant.

Download Link:

http://pika.cs.nctu.edu.tw/lit/Kilyow.rar

The game is very easy to fall into the stalemate. I suspect the variant is not real Cambodian Chess, because it lacks playable strategic and no Cambodia people plays or mentions it.

I think the vaiant was invented by one persion who both liked Chinese Chess and Thai Chess. He wanted to combine these chess, so invented this variant.

If the elephant jumpes like Ailfi(2,2 jumper) and also steps like the elephant of Thai Chess, the variant may be somewhat playable.

Not bad. Thanks for Ed Friedlander. He had improved the rules in his Applets. The variant is more playable now.

http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Earthqua.htm

I had played this varinat and like it. Hope someone would Implement it on ZOG.

http://www.pathguy.com/chess/TileChss.htm

http://www.hivemania.com/play/

The machine is like Hive. Maybe Hive is inspired by Tile Chess.

V.R. Parton also invented Identific Chess which resembles Bario. 

http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Identifi.htm

http://www.omegachess.com/home.html?action=advanced#undefined

Omega Chess Advanced has added a new piece:Fool.

The Fool assumes the identity of the last piece your opponent has moved.

http://www.pathguy.com/chess/PattScha.htm

Patt-schach is a good exemple improving well for Upside-Down Chess.

This page needs more infromation: 

1. On the broad of this game, there are zones called the Sea and the Hill instead of the River. Horses and Chriots can't cross Ocean; Cannon can't cross Hill.

2. The piece marked X is Banner. Originally, it steps horizontally or vertically two or one square on owner's zone. When it crosses the Ocean or Hill, it will move like Chariot from then on, but never come back owner's zone. 

3. There are only three soldiers on every player's side. Two soilders on c or g file have been replaced by two pieces called Fire. Fire steps forward diagonally. 

4. Three Friends Chinese Chess is originally invented by ¾G®Ê¼w during the reign of Kangxi Emperor.

I had implimented Three Friends Chinese Chess  ¤T¤Í´Ñ, but 2-player version.

http://pika.cs.nctu.edu.tw/lit/FriendsChinese.rar

Beyond Chess 

http://www.gobeyondchess.com/pages/bcframeset.htm

Choiss

http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Choiss.htm

Stochastic Chess

http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Stochast.htm

Beyond Chess, Choiss, and Stochastic Chess belong to Build-Board chess
variants.

Thanks. As a Chinese, I am glad that people would be interested in two ancient Chinese Chess varints: Three Friends Chinese Chess(¤T¤Í´Ñ), and Three Kingdoms Chinese Chess(¤T�°ê´Ñ)¡C


Some history information is avaiable from the following link:  

http://www.worldmindmasters.com/zh-hans/comment/reply/133

The detailed rules of the Three Friends Chinese Chess are avaiable from the book ¹Ï»¡¤¤°ê¥j¥N¹CÃÀ ISBN: 9576687039, which records many Chinese Ancient Game.

In this Chinese Chess History book  '��¤¤°ê¶H´Ñ¥vÂO¦Ò' ISBN: 9787101037043, also records the broad of of Three Friends Chinese Chess, but lacks the detailed rules.

Three Kingdoms China Chess was invented during Southern Song Dynasty. Unfortunarely, the inventor's name, the rules books ¤T°ê¹Ï®æ,¤T¶HÀ¸¹Ï and the detailed rules were all lost.   

¾G®Ê¼w, the inventor of Three Friends Chinese Chess, lived in Anhui province during the reign of Kangxi Emperor of Qing Dynasty. He is one of friends of ±i¼é who was known as one of the greatest essay writers in China. 

±i¼é wrote a book called ¬L¥NÂO®Ñ�. The rules of three Friends Chinese Chese were found in ¬L¥NÂO®Ñ�. 

During the reign of Qianlong Emperor, ª÷¾Ç¸Ö�, in his game book:ªª½Þ¶¢¸Ü also mentioned this game. 

I think that ¾G®Ê¼w maybe invended his variant in according to the original broad of the Three Kingdoms Chinese Chess.

Did anyone ever play this Chess-likes game? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Chess

Khet is slightly similar to Laser Chess.

http://pika.cs.nctu.edu.tw/lit/ThreeFriends2.jpg


Another picture of Three Friends CHinese Chess from ¹Ï»¡¤¤°ê¥j¥N¹CÃÀ.This book provides the following poem of ¾G®Ê¼w, depictting the rules and the tactics about ¤T¤Í´Ñ.

The picture does not show the palace(¤E®c) pattern. In fact there are three palaces in the rules. 


 
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Now, I understand the move of unpromoted 'ºX' in according to 'ºX¥X¨â¨B¡A«eÅXª½½Ä': 'ºX' only step 2 squares(maybe also 1?) forward. But I could't confirm the promoted piece.