Chess variants comprise a family of strategy board games that are related to, inspired by, or similar enough to the game we today call Chess
. The game we commonly know today was based on earlier games, most immediately the Arabian game of Shatranj , itself descended from the Indian game of Chaturanga . Besides its direct ancestors, Chess has many cousins, the most popular being Shogi
(in Japan), Xiangqi
(in China), and Janggi
(in Korea). The modern game of Chess has also inspired countless variants. Some have been created by Chess champions seeking new challenges. Some have been created by entrepreneurs who have provided commercial sets. Some have been created for fairy Chess problems without any intent of actually playing them. And most have been designed by creative people who like to try out new pieces, new rules, or new ideas.
This site seeks to catalog the vast number of Chess variants created throughout history, as well as to nurture the creation of new variants. Thanks to computers and the internet, it is now easier to play new Chess variants than ever before. We have benefited from Zillions-of-Games , which has allowed us to program and play numerous Chess variants against the computer. And we offer Game Courier , which enables you to play numerous Chess variants against others online, including new games of your own invention. This time in history is a renaissance for Chess variants, and this site is here to share this renaissance with the world.
On these pages - What's
new? - Contributors - Alphabetical index -
How
you can help - Awards - Recognized Chess
Variants - Play! - Comments
1: /home1/chessvar/public_html/ 2: /home1/chessvar/public_html/index.html Credits
Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and David Howe. See also
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| 2012-05-13 | Fergus Duniho  | None | If you want to customize the contents of the What's New page to your specific interests, you can use the form at the bottom of the What's New page. | View [*] | | 2012-05-12 | Mark Thompson | None | Here's another suggestion, related to the new comment filtering idea: perhaps registered users could set a default filter on the What's New items we want to see, according to various qualities (creation date, game features, authorship, etc.) so we could focus on the pages we find interesting. | View [*] | | 2012-05-12 | Hubert  | None | That is good! Excellent new feature. | View [*] | | 2012-05-12 | Fergus Duniho | None | And it's done. To blacklist someone's comments, go to your Person Information page and click the "Edit Person" link. You will find a form field for a blacklist. Enter one name per line. Use whatever name the person posts under. For members, this is the PersonID, which you can find in the URL their name links to. For non-members, it is just the name or OpenID used to post. When you log in, it loads the blacklist into your session. As long as you are logged in, it will not load or display comments from blacklisted authors in the main listing of all comments. If you go to a page or view a specific subject thread, comments from your blacklisted authors will still appear. | View [*] | | 2012-05-11 | Fergus Duniho | None | It's doable, but you would have to be a member for it to work for you. | View [*] | | Number of ratings: 25, Average rating: Excellent, Number of comments: 152 |
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