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Photo of Tamerlane Chess set. Photo of home made set of historic chess variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Ben Good wrote on Sun, Sep 1, 2002 09:12 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★

this one is interesting too, but there's almost no info provided. altho the pic is pretty sharp, it is difficult to tell what the pieces are made out of - they have more of a homemade look to them, so i'm guessing they are painted wood, but just from looking at them, they could be a variety of substances. the big problem with this page is that there is just one photo, we could use some closeups of these pieces. <P> also, i am very curious about the board. is it homemade, or was it bought somewhere? i have had zero success finding a nice 10x10 or 12x12 wood board - or any other size other than 8x8, but 10x11 seems especially unusual to me.

📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Sep 2, 2002 04:48 AM EDT:

Thanks to Ben for his comments.
True, the photograph is dark, but it is to better see the details on the
white pieces.
This is a home-made set (mere wood, painted and vernished) and a home-made
board. It is a 11x11 board not a 11x10, because it was made for my
variant,Tamerlane 2000. 
This equipment was made in 1978, a long time ago now, woah, so long I love
chess variants !
As a matter of fact, this is the first variant I designed. Look its
history on my pages : http://www.chez.com/cazaux/tamerlane2.htm
A last comment: 10x10 should not be that difficult to get : it is the
regular board for International Checkers, even though people plays
Draughts in US (a much simpler game), with Internet, Int Checkers board
should be easily available. 
If the reader gets such a board, may I recommend him to try Shako, with
Xiangqi Cannons joining the regular FIDE's set.

John Lawson wrote on Mon, Sep 2, 2002 06:51 AM EDT:

Jean-Louis said:
'10x10 should not be that difficult to get : it is the
regular board for International Checkers, even though people plays
Draughts in US (a much simpler game), with Internet, Int Checkers board
should be easily available.' 

That's what I would think, too, but Ben and I have seached and searched,
and international draughts boards seem to be unobtainable in the US.  We
have no desire to pay trans-Atlantic shipping charges, so if anyone knows
where to find them here, please enlighten us.  Thanks.

Hans Bodlaender wrote on Mon, Feb 3, 2003 07:53 AM EST:

Super cardinals chess is an affordable chess variant with a 10 by 10 board,
and one can play the European type of checkers with the set too.

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Mar 2, 2003 05:47 AM EST:

Having looked at the enlarged photograph I note that the pawns all look the same. How do you keep track of which file they started on? It might be easier with Oriental-style pieces, with a blank face turned up when they are pawns and a specifying face turned up when they promote. Does anyone know how the original players managed?

timurthelenk wrote on Mon, Mar 3, 2003 03:45 PM EST:

Good eyes. This photo and set-up is for Tamerlane II, a variant on a 11x11,
not on the 11x10 + 2 extra cases of orginal Tamerlane Chess.
Here, there is no need to differentiate the Pawns.
In Tamerlane Chess, they used to play with 2 sets, one big for the major
pieces and one small for the pawns. Then, they could recognize which Pawn
is at every moment.

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