Items Authored by (zzo38) A. Black
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TeX Chess
. Chess program (including many variants) in TeX. By (zzo38) A. Black.
Game
123456 Chess. Uses 2 dices for each player and 2 checkers for each player, in addition to normal chess pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
2Choice Chess. You can tell opponent which pieces he can move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
2Hit Shogi. Shogi with 2 hits to destroy a piece, and drop pieces at start. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
3FewShogi Chess. Like Chess but 3 Shogi per side. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Aieirping Chess. Missing description (29x14, Cells: 406) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Alien and Predators Symmetric. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Backgammon Chess. Play backgammon and chess game together. (8x8, Cells: 88) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Bario Shogi. A shogi game with pieces that can be change typed. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Bland Chess. Chess with no diagonal moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Bland Chess 46. Orthogonal moves only on a board with 46 squares. (6x8, Cells: 46) Author: (zzo38) A. Black. Inventor: (zzo38) A. Black and Gary K. Gifford.
Card Bet Chess. Betting chess with cards telling you which moves are OK. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Cat's Chess. Missing description (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Checker-capture Chess. Pieces can capture as in checkers game. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Chess with checkers added. Add checkers in front of the pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Chess with Quantum Bishops. Bishops move orthogonally along both paths and end up where a normal bishop would end up. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Chess with wickets. The wicket is behind the King's 1. (8x8, Cells: 66) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Color Square Shogi. Shogi with color squares you place at beginning of game. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Communist Chess. When you capture an opponent's piece, you must destroy one of your own pieces of the same type. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Copper, Silver, Gold: An Indestructible Metallic Alloy. Game with indestructible metallic alloys. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Decay Shogi. Pieces decay if held too long. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Dice-Money Chess. Earn money if you do what is written on the dice. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Do Sho Chess. Chess with Shogi pieces added. (14x8, Cells: 112) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Droppable Xiangqi. Another variant of Xiangqi with droppable pieces. (10x9, Cells: 90) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Duplication Chess. Twice per game, move a piece with duplication. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEX! Chess. A game designed to be as different to chess as possible while still being the same as chess. (1x72, Cells: 72) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Elephant Hecatomb. Similar to Hecatomb Chess. (9x8, Cells: 72) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Exinox Chess. Normal chess set, new type of pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Famicom PPU Chess. Game inspired by limitation of Famicom PPU. (10x10, Cells: 80) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Fraction Shogi. Shogi with fractional moves. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Ghostarelay. Game with ghost and relay, win if you have no legal moves. (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Hero's Chess. A chess with very different pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Hit-point Chess. Pieces start with 30 hit points and attack by stepping next to the target. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Idaidakama Shogi. Like Maka-Dai-Dai with drops and new pieces. (19x19, Cells: 361) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Immobilizer Shogi. Piece that can immobilize other pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Invisible King Chess. Opponent can't see where you moved your king to. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Journalist's Chess. Journalist is movable to any position but no capture. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
King Friday XIII Chess. Flexible castling, promotion to opponent's pieces, etc. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Kira Chess/Kira Shogi. "Kira" and "L" pieces which is not known by your opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Latrumcolorum Chess. Piece caught between two opponent pieces is moved by him. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Limited Ranged Guards Chess. A game with some limited queens/guards and tanks to shoot opponent. (10x10, Cells: 100) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Long-King Shogi. Long-king moves very far but don't let it get captured. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Ludus Equitum. Game designed in style of Society of Creative Anachronism. By (zzo38) A. Black.
Mad Elephant Shogi. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Mind-Vector. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Minishogi setuper. Minishogi you can set up pieces at beginning of the game. (5x5, Cells: 25) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Narikin Shogi. Shogi with promoted gold generals. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Option Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: (zzo38) A. Black. Inventor: Paul Bonham.
Option-Suicide Chess. You can optionally destroy your own pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Para-Xiang-qi. Xiangqi with limited drops and new piece. (9x10, Cells: 90) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Pawn Chess. Pawns promote to first piece captured by opponent. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: (zzo38) A. Black.
Pawn Shooter Chess. Defeat your opponent by shooting pawns at them! (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Point-Power Shogi. A shogi variant with ever growing supply of pieces on a TI-92 calculator. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Progressive Writing Chess. You have to write more and more each turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Promote King Chess. King can promote into Cthulhu, and white pawns can promote into black pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Protomorphic-Chess. Start with only kings (and pawns), pieces change to different type after move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Quadd Shogi. Shogi with 4 squares for each one space in normal Shogi. (18x18, Cells: 324) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Recapturable Chess. Captured pieces belong to other player and then removed permanently. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Reldoub. Game with river, relays, walls, and fractions. (11x11, Cells: 121) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Royal-Copy Chess. Some pieces can gain power of captured pieces. (9x8, Cells: 72) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Secret Bombs Chess. Secret bombs with cards telling you where they are. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Secret Stallmate. Both players win if stalemated, but information is secret and setup is random. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Seventeen Pawns. You can replace opponent's queen by nine pawns. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Shogi of the Central Madness. The center square is madness! You need card and dice to decide its effect. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Shogi With Pokémons. Pokemons with special powers are added to an otherwise normal shogi board. (11x11, Cells: 121) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Sirlin's Chess. Alternative presentation of "Chess 2 - The Sequel". (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: (zzo38) A. Black. Inventor: David Sirlin.
Small-Deacon Chess. Missing description (7x7, Cells: 49) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Stacked-Copying Shogi. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Super-Drop-Xiang-Qi. Xiang-Qi with drops and more thing different when cross river, one new piece. (10x9, Cells: 90) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Symmetric Monster Chess. Some pieces are single and some are double. (8x8, Cells: 72) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Symmetric Snark Hunting. Snark hunting game with symmetric positions. (6x11, Cells: 59) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Symmetric Unirexal Chess. Each player has a half of a king. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
TelnChes. Some games played by program TelnChes. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Three Symbols Multi-state Chess. Write move in 3 symbols and any move that is like what you wrote is possible. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Three Universes Chess. There is 3 boards and pieces can move through the kings to different universes. (3x(8x8), Cells: 192) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Triagonal Chess. 3D with triagonal moves and a hole in the middle. (8x(8x8), Cells: 504) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Triangular Chess
. Missing description Author: (zzo38) A. Black. Inventor: _unknown.
Two Ring Chess. Symmetric variant of "The Fellowship of the Ring". (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
U12 Shogi. A new kind of large shogi game. (12x12, Cells: 144) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Ulchesgi. Like Ultima and Chess and Shogi. (12x8, Cells: 96) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Unbland Chess. Diagonal moves are usually (but not always) prohibited. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Unknown Drop Shogi. It is unknown what kind of piece your opponent dropped. By (zzo38) A. Black.
Unknown Off-Pieces Shogi. Pieces placed from outside of the board are unknown to opponent. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Variants with Queens. Some variants, mostly dealing with queens, and mostly modest. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Withdrawing Chess. Any piece can withdraw from other pieces to capture them. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Xaigo!. A game using Game-of-Life rules to change the board after each move. (8x8, Cells: 64) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Xorix Shogi. Shogi where piece movement are XORed with captured pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) By (zzo38) A. Black.
Program
Giveaway Chess Puzzle
. Computer game that you have to lose all of your own pieces to win. By (zzo38) A. Black.
Reference
Chess Variants Query. More options for searching in these pages. By (zzo38) A. Black.
Zillions
ChessVariants.zrf. 17 variants in 1 file. By (zzo38) A. Black.
Little Cheops. Missing description By (zzo38) A. Black.
Ludus Equitum. Game in style of Society of Creative Anachronism. By (zzo38) A. Black.
Re. Drop pieces on a 5 by 5 board. By (zzo38) A. Black.
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