Active Chess

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G. Kuzmichov, 1989. This was researched by his students. They decided the best opening array for a 9x8 board was a second queen either on file 8 or file 9. The program alternates.

Chess Variants

These are simple illustrations rather than strong opponents.

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Written by Ed Friedlander

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Credits

Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: G. Kuzmichov.

Comments

Date	Name	Rating	Comment	Edit
Active Chess. (9x8, Cells: 72)
2008-01-02	Dracobest	Poor	Adding a queen in the corner just make it wierd. Also, something that has nothing to do with this Chess Variant but... The AI was stupid, he was just keeping moving his queen on the same 3 square while I devoured slowly his pieces... He took a while to finally capture my... Pawn that changed to a piece from another Chess variant by taking out his queen o_O	View [*]
2007-11-23	Vanion	Poor	It's very poor	View [*]
2007-05-24	M Winther	Poor	In Active Chess the bishops are inevitably going to be exchanged on the h-file. As it is too easy to get rid of the bishops it's a poor variant. The positional content is depleted when the bishops disappear. /Mats	View [*]
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