Check out Makruk (Thai Chess), our featured variant for March, 2025.


[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ]
[ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ]
[ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]

Single Comment

Grotesque Chess. A variant of Capablanca's Chess with no unprotected Pawns. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Sep 22, 2004 01:27 PM EDT:
Regarding the names Guard and Equerry, they seemed suitable for this game, because the Guard is placed next to the King, as though it is guarding it, Guard and Equerry feature some of the letters of Grotesque, particularly G and Qu, and Equerry strikes me as a bizarre, if not grotesque, name for a piece.