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Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Mon, Dec 3, 2001 07:00 PM EST:You forgot to include a draw game when a player has a king with a lone bishop or a lone knight it is impossible to create a checkmate and therfore the game ends in a draw.
Anonymous wrote on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 07:00 PM EST:Good ★★★★ifp rlayer has have a quen and and his pawn rich the other side its impossible to have a 2 quen
Anonymous wrote on Sun, Nov 11, 2001 07:00 PM EST:Excellent ★★★★★Great! This website has taught me a lot about the basics of chess. I am now the best chess player in my school!
Anonymous wrote on Sun, Nov 11, 2001 07:00 PM EST:Excellent ★★★★★great job it looks nice
Wanda wrote on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:I was impressed with your display of rules and want to share it with a young man in our school who I suggested start a chess club. It has been a long time since I have played and am looking for site that will explain the tracking of your moves. I tried to explain that in competition that you record your moves (which he did not know) but I could not recall after 45 years just how to record moves. Would you be able to direct me to such a site or provide me with an explanation I can share with the students. Thank you for your assistance. our e-mail address (for you only) is eugene.ratz@verizon.net Thank You Wanda
Martin wrote on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:Comment about the image about castling undertitled 'Neither white nor black may castle: white is in check, and the black king may not move over d8'. White can't castle because is in check, and white can't castle because the king has been moved from his original position. Martin
Anonymous wrote on Mon, Oct 1, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★Anonymous wrote on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 07:00 PM EST:Excellent ★★★★★Anonymous wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★This is David Paulowich writing in support of the standard rules for pawn promotion, which seem to be unpopular with some players and chess variant designers. If, for example, pawns could only be promoted to previously captured pieces, then many beautiful games would no longer be legal. My databases contain over 400 games with 4 Queens on the board, 2 White and 2 Black, including: Capablanca - Alekhine, 1927 (Thirteenth World Chess Championship Match, game 11) and Borsony - Koch, 1956 (Second World Correspondence Chess Championship). In 1936 Reinle checkmated Lange in this 'extra promotion' game: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 f5 3. exf5 e4 4. Qh5+ g6 5. fxg6 h6 6. g7+ Ke7 7. Qe5+ Kf7 8. gxh8=N#
Such games, with one player having nine pieces other than pawns, used to be rare (only ten were played between 1856 and 1963). In modern times the opening: 1. b4 e5 2. Bb2 Bxb4 3. f4 exf4 4. Bxg7 Qh4+ 5. g3 fxg3 6. Bg2 gxh2+ 7. Kf1 hxg1=Q+ 8. Kxg1 (from Kucharkowski - Walter, 1982) has been repeated in over 200 games. Incidentally, White is winning, by about 150 to 50.
Anonymous wrote on Tue, Sep 4, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:Good ★★★★Anonymous wrote on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★now I feel confident to win my wife in her own game
Anonymous wrote on Fri, Jun 8, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★I am a teacher and am thinking of starting a chess club at school. I am a beginner at the game and was looking for easy to read rules, preferably with clear diagrams. Your site gave me precisely that. The descriptions of taking en passant and castling are succint and precise.
Anonymous wrote on Mon, May 14, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:Good ★★★★I already know how to play and i am very good for 12 years.I wnated pictures so I can make my own chess website.
Anonymous wrote on Mon, May 7, 2001 08:00 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★ITs really very informative for all chess players and specially for beginers and inter-mediatory level
Anonymous wrote on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 07:00 PM EST:Excellent ★★★★★Anonymous wrote on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 07:00 PM EST:Excellent ★★★★★Good detailed info. Helped me a lot.
Anonymous wrote on Sun, Dec 24, 2000 07:00 PM EST:Excellent ★★★★★ Wildebeest Chess. Variant on an 10 by 11 board with extra jumping pieces. (11x10, Cells: 110) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Jared wrote on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 07:38 PM EDT:Good ★★★★Hey, how do you nominate a game for those anyway? Email me at jaredbmccomb@hotmail.com
Mideast chess. Variant on 10 by 10 board, inspired by ancient Tamerlane chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]gnohmon wrote on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 09:00 PM EDT:Good ★★★★A drunken Bishop first makes an F move in a random direction; if the square chosen is off the board or is occupied by a friendly piece, the move is over; if the target is occupied by foe, capture, move over; if target is empty, repeat the process.
<p>A Cooked Bishop is quite another story. I cannot say how it moves until you specify whether it is stewed, fried, sauteed, steamed, or baked.
<p>'The Cavalier may not move to an adjacent square'. This makes it quite a bit weaker than the combination of Gryphon + Aanca; value is Q or even less, I guess. I never liked this rule, but it keeps popping up as a way of limiting the strength of the Gryphon. I suppose it creates interesting situations. I'll have to think about it some more.
<p>The NAD (named the Castle in this game) should have roughly the same value as the NB. on 8x8 board, that is.
<p>The stretched Knights are weak and awkward, and if they don't fork something in the opening they don't add much to your force. As defensive blocking pieces their long moves are an awkwardness and a liability; but if the game as a whole works out, this awkwardness may be a very pleasing element. I wouldn't design it that way because it would need more playtesting; but 'it's a local favorite', so it has evidently been well tested.
Isle of Lewis Chess Men. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Anonymous wrote on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 07:00 PM EST:A small point, but the Isle of Lewis is not an English island - it is in Scotland, as you point out later in your text. England and Scotland are different countries within the United Kingdom of Great Britain (i.e. the big island that has England, Scotland and Wales in it) and Northern Ireland (on the next door island that has Ireland on it as well). Otherwise a good site!
Tauschach. Each player has one piece off the board, that can be switched every turn with one of his pieces but not the king. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Excelent and under-appreciated gem! In a few game of this variant, I found how the simplest change alters the game dramatically. For example this variant makes bishop no longer color bound, and nullifies the use of castling.
Fischer Random Chess. Play from a random setup. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Rookmaster wrote on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 07:01 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★Very good!
General Comments Page. Page for making general comments.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]David -
<p>Just feeding back to let you know I really like all the improvements you've made to the comment system. It looks like people other than the usual ones are stating to use it, too. (I guess I'm going to have to learn what an HTML tag is, though. I'm not ashamed of my ignorance; I know things about mainframe computers.)
<p>I at first thought the Minimal New page was an odd idea, but it turns out to be great, because it refreshes in the blink of an eye.
<p>The only quibble is I don't like to have to expand long comments, but I'm probably in the minority, and cerainly against fashion.
📝David Howe wrote on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 02:02 PM EDT:I appreciate all the feedback, especially constructive criticism. Please do keep me advised of what you like, and especially what you don't like. I will continue to develop and hopefully improve this system. But also keep in mind that this is part-time, volunteer work for me, so I prefer to keep things simple and easy.
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