Items Invented by H. G. Muller
DTP
Betza notation (extended). The powerful XBetza extension to Betza's funny notation. By H. G. Muller.
Diagram Editor with scalable graphics.
An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color. By H. G. Muller.
Game
Cashew Shogi. Many pieces must promote on capture, and some can multi-capture. (13x13, Cells: 169) By H. G. Muller.
Charge of the Light Brigade. Seven knights fight 3 queens, and usually win! (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
Decimaka. Game where pieces promote on making a capture. By H. G. Muller.
Decimaka (revised). Game where pieces promote on making a capture. (10x10) By H. G. Muller.
Elven Chess. 10x10 variant with 4 new pieces, of which one can double-capture. (10x10, Cells: 100) By H. G. Muller.
Macadamia Shogi. Pieces promote on capture to multi-capturing monsters. (13x13, Cells: 169) By H. G. Muller.
Makromachy. Huge variant with 2x56 pieces, some jumping over many others. (14x14, Cells: 196) By H. G. Muller.
Megalomachy. A huge game with 2x80 pieces, some able to jump over many others. (16x16, Cells: 256) By H. G. Muller.
Mighty-Lion Chess. Normal Chess augmented with a hard-to-trade Lion super-piece that can make double-captures. (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
Minjiku Shogi. Wild shogi variant, with pieces that burn neighbors or jump many pieces. (10x10, Cells: 104) By H. G. Muller.
Nutty Shogi. Pieces jump over many others, and a Fire Demon burns neighbors. (13x13, Cells: 169) By H. G. Muller.
Pink Chess. White has two Kings, black two Queens as royal pieces. By H. G. Muller.
Spiral Chess. The royal pieces slide along a spiral trajectory. By H. G. Muller.
Team-Mate Chess. Variant with 8 different pieces, none of which is able to checkmate a bare king on its own. (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
Veteran Chess. Most pieces can or must irreversibly promote when they capture. By H. G. Muller.
Werewolf Chess. An nearly invincible, but bribable Werewolf replaces the Queen. (8x8, Cells: 64) By H. G. Muller.
Jocly
Elven Chess. Play this 10x10 variant with a double-capturing piece on Jocly. Author: H. G. Muller and Michel Gutierrez. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
Team-Mate Chess. Play this variant in which it takes a team to checkmate the King on Jocly. Author: H. G. Muller and Michel Gutierrez. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
Werewolf Chess. Play this variant in which contagious Werewolves replace Queens on Jocly. Author: H. G. Muller and Michel Gutierrez. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
PBM
Elven Chess. Chu Shogi Lion, Dragon Horse, Dragon King, Guard on Grand Chess type setup. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
Mighty Lion Chess. Orthodox Western Chess but with one knight replaced by Chu Shogi Lion. Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
Nutty Shogi. Smaller version of Tenjiku Shogi on a 13x13 board. Author: A. M. DeWitt. Inventor: H. G. Muller.
Problem
Checkmating Applet. Practice your checkmating skill with fairy pieces. By H. G. Muller.
Checkmating Applet (3 vs 1). Practice your checkmating skill with fairy pieces. By H. G. Muller.
Program
Fairy-Max. A chess engine configurable for playing a wide variety of chess variants. By H. G. Muller.
Fairy-Max
. Free open source chess variant software. By H. G. Muller.
FairyGen. Generator for end-game tables with fairy pieces. By H. G. Muller.
Reference
GAME code generation. A tutorial on using the Play-Test Applet for automating Game Courier presets. By H. G. Muller.
Interactive diagrams. Diagrams that interactively show piece moves. By H. G. Muller.
Play-test applet for chess variants. Applet you can play your own variant against. By H. G. Muller.
Variants playable against the diagram's AI.
Index of variants that can be played against the interactive diagram. By H. G. Muller.
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