Items Authored by David Howe
Contest
32-Turn Challenge. Missing description Author: David Howe.
32-Turn Contest Results. Missing description Author: David Howe.
Craft
Floppy Board Tiles. An example of a chess variant board construction set. By David Howe.
Game
3 Man Chess
. Commercial three player chess variant on a round board. Author: David Howe.
AIGO Chess. International chess with Cannon pieces added. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe. Inventor: Feng Jun.
All the King's Men.
Remake of Parker Brothers game Smess, but with a serious look. Arrows on squares determine the directions pieces can move. (7x8, Cells: 56) (Recognized!) Author: Fergus Duniho and David Howe. Inventor: Perry Grant and Reuben Klamer.
Arena Chess 42. A non-competing entry in the 42 Squares contest. (Cells: 42) By David Howe.
Beyond Chess (tm). Commercial variant with dynamic board. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe. Inventor: David Crockett.
Bifold Halfgi. A variant of Halfgi, but with half-sized pieces. By David Howe.
Capablanca's chess. An enlarged chess variant, proposed by Capablanca. (10x8, Cells: 80) (Recognized!) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and David Howe. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
CARDCHESS. Utilizes the two key elements of card games: four suits and the ability to place cards face down to hide their values. (10x10, Cells: 100) Author: David Howe.
ChesK: Risk and Chess Combination
. A combination of the classic chess and Risk. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Khalid Waheed.
Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added. On a 10 row by 8 column board, with three new pieces. (8x10, Cells: 80) By David Howe.
A Chess-like Variant Construction Set. Build your own army and territory. By David Howe.
Chess37. A chess variant on a board with 37 squares where pieces outside of the center 9 squares move like Kings. (Cells: 37) By David Howe.
Combination Chess. Pieces give their movement capabilities to friendly pieces in their zone of influence. (Cells: 39) By David Howe.
Continuous Chess. There are no 'squares' on the board, and pieces are not restricted to moving discrete distances. By David Howe.
Contrast Chess. Pieces lose or gain strength depending on the colour of the square they stand on. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
Dave's Example Game. This is Dave Howe's example of a user-posted game. (2x2, Cells: 4) By David Howe.
Diagonal Chess. Board turned 45 degrees. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
Divided Forces Chess. Half of your army starts on the other side of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) and David Howe.
Feeble Los Alamos Chess. Los Alamos Chess using Feeble pieces. (6x6, Cells: 36) By David Howe.
Fun-in-a-Box Chess. Featuring Thing One and Thing Two from The Cat in the Hat. By David Howe.
The Game of the Three Kingdoms. Another variant on Chinese Chess for three players. (Cells: 135) Author: David Howe and Various.
The Game of Three Friends. A variant on Chinese Chess for three players. (Cells: 135) Author: David Howe and Various. Inventor: Jìndé Zhèng.
Greg White's Chess Variants
. Missing description Author: David Howe. Inventor: Greg White.
Infinite Recursion Chess. Another mega-chess type game. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) By David Howe.
Interchange Chess. Get as many of your own pieces to their destination squares on the other side of the board as possible. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe. Inventor: Alexandre Muñiz and David Howe.
InterGrid Chess. Pieces on corners and on centers of squares of 8 by 8 board. (8x8, Cells: 145) By David Howe.
Knight-Tac-Toe. Small variant with only kings and knights where you must get three pieces in line in the center of the board. (5x5, Cells: 25) By David Howe.
Mega-Chess. A chess game where each piece is a chess game! (64x(8x8), Cells: 4096) By David Howe.
Monochrome Chess
. All pieces are the same color. Players move pieces on their side of the board. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Andrew Looney.
Multimove Chess. Players spend points to make multiple moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
Nomic Chess. Combination of Peter Suber's Nomic with Ralph Betza's Chess For Any Number of Players. By David Howe.
Palindromic Chess. Play until the position on the board is the reversed of the starting postion. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
Pawns Chess. Each pawn has a unique ability. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
Portal Chess. Two boards and pieces can teleport from one board to another. Also playable with two half-boards. (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
Potential Chess. Pieces start out as any piece and become a particular piece depending on how they move,. By David Howe.
Proteus: A Chess Army that Changes at your Command!
. Variant played with 8 dice per side, each side of which has a different Chess piece printed on it. Author: David Howe.
Quad-Square Chess. Chess on a board of 38 squares, of which six have size two by two. (7x8, Cells: 38) By David Howe.
Reduced Endgame Chess. Two kings and six pawns are used for practicing endgames. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe.
Reflex Chess. Force your opponent to mate you. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe. Inventor: William Geary.
San-kwo-k'i. inese Chess for three players (Game of the Three Kingdoms). (Cells: 135) Author: David Howe and Various.
Sceptre 1027 A.D.. Large, commercial, multiplayer chess variant. (9x(8x8), Cells: 576) Author: David Howe.
Shifting Chess. Variant inspired on shifting puzzles; one can move pieces of the board. (8x8, Cells: 56) By David Howe.
Smess.
Produced and sold in the early 70's by Parker Brothers. Arrows on squares determine direction pieces can move. (7x8, Cells: 56) (Recognized!) Author: Fergus Duniho and David Howe. Inventor: Perry Grant and Reuben Klamer.
Tapestry Chess. Chess on a four-color 6x6 board, with a 5 square control board. (6x6, Cells: 41) By David Howe.
Twelve Mutation Chess. Variant that uses 12 mutators that may be activated or deactivated during the game. By David Howe.
Unreliable Delivery Chess. Pieces may get delayed before they arrive at their destinations. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Viennese Chess, or Viennese Kriegspiel. Start with a secretly made setup. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: David Howe. Inventor: Dr. Ritter von Korwin-Dzbanski.
Xhess. Decimal variant with Nightriders and Cannons. (10x10, Cells: 100) By David Howe.
Zeitgeist.
. Variant with simultaneous movement. Author: David Howe. Inventor: John Cooper.
Graphics
Alfaerie Variant Chess Graphics. Set of chess variant graphics based on Eric Bentzen's Chess Alpha font. Author: David Howe.
Alfaerie Variant Chess Graphics: Expansion Set 1. Set of chess variant graphics based on Eric Bentzen's Chess Alpha font. Author: David Howe.
Alfaerie Variant Chess Graphics: Expansion Set 2. More Alfaerie graphics, plus a preview of the new Alpha Variant font. Author: David Howe.
Alfaerie Variant Chess Graphics: Expansion Set 3. More chess variant graphics based on the Alpha chess font. Author: David Howe.
Alpha Variant Font. Preview of the new Alpha Variant font along with new Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe.
Shogi Pieces. Graphics of shogi pieces and symbols. Author: David Howe.
Square graphics: more fantasy pieces. Images of some fantasy pieces for the creation of diagrams. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and David Howe.
Misc
Chess Variant Pages Membership. Missing description Author: David Howe.
Create Member Submitted Item. Chess Variant Pages members can post their own items to the site! Author: David Howe.
Create Member Submitted Zillions Item. Chess Variant Pages members can post their own Zillions files to the site! Author: David Howe.
General Comments Page. Page for making general comments. Author: David Howe.
RSS Feed. Chess Variant Pages RSS Feed. Author: David Howe.
The chess variant pages: Offline Version. Read this website without an internet connection. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and David Howe.
UTF Conversion Page. Page for documenting UTF conversion issues. By David Howe.
NewsItem
Tony Quintanilla is a new Father!. Our Chess Variant Pages editor's new creation! Author: David Howe. Inventor: Tony Quintanilla.
PBM
Bifold Halfgi. Bifold pieces are able to combine with other same-colored bifold pieces and move as a single normal sized piece. By David Howe.
Centennial Chess. 10x10 Variant that adds Camels, Stewards, Rotating Spearmen and Murray Lions to the standard mix. Author: David Howe. Inventor: John William Brown.
Chess with Different Armies. A Ralph Betza personal favorite: Features series of armies with approximately the same strength as the FIDE army. (Recognized!) Author: David Howe and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Photo
Centennial Chess Photographs. 10x10 board, Shogi-like pieces. Author: David Howe. Inventor: John William Brown.
Chess Piece Discs. Chess variant pieces on wooden discs. Author: David Howe.
Eight-Stone Chess Pictures. Photo's of home made chess variant set for Eight-Stone Chess. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
Grand Chess Set. Photographs of a commercially available Grand Chess set. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
Horse Chess-Nut. Horse statue with two chess problems painted on it. Author: David Howe.
King's Court Pictures. Photo's on modern oblong 12 by 8 chess variant based on Courier chess. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Sidney LeVasseur.
Quang Trung Chess Pictures. Photo's of home made Quang Trung set. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Vu Q Vo.
Taikyoku Photographs. Missing description Author: David Howe and Edward Strickland.
Vyremorn Chess Pictures. Photo's of large chess variant. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Nathan McDonald.
Piece
Growing and Shrinking. Playing with the Size of Chess Pieces. Author: David Howe.
Mimics. Several pieces that can imitate the movement of other pieces. Author: David Howe.
Rococo. Animated piece movement diagrams. By Peter Aronson and David Howe.
A Taxonomy. Categorizing several types of pieces. Author: David Howe.
Ultima Pieces. Illustrated guide to how Ultima Pieces capture. Author: David Howe.
Piececlopedia
Archbishop. Moves as bishop or as knight. Author: Fergus Duniho and David Howe.
Chancellor. Moves like rook or as knight. Author: Fergus Duniho and David Howe.
Paladin. Moves as Bishop or as Knight. Author: Fergus Duniho and David Howe.
Poll
Poll: Recognized Variant for 2003 #1. Help us choose the next recognized variant! Author: David Howe.
Poll: Recognized Variant for 2003 #2.. Help us choose the next recognized variant! Author: David Howe.
Poll: Recognized Variant for 2003 #3. Voting begins August 1! Author: David Howe.
Reference
Chess Rules for Kids. An illustrated guide to the rules of chess for children. Author: David Howe.
Chess Variant Pages Rating System. Missing description By David Howe.
The Concise Guide to Chess Variants. Missing description Author: David Howe.
Helping us Maintain this Site. Information on how you can help us maintain this site. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and David Howe.
The Concise Guide to Chess Variants. Brief descriptions or definitions of terms, phrases and named related to Chess variants. Author: David Howe.
SampleGame
Timur's Chess: Sample Game 1. A sample game of Tamerlane Chess. Author: David Howe.
Zillions
Arena Chess 42
. Game with two boards totaling 42-squares where pieces captured on the large board move to the small board. By David Howe.
Big Outer Chess
. Large variant with concentric circles on the board, so there is less concentration on the center. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Peter Blanchard.
Capablanca's chess
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Jose Raul Capablanca.
Centennial Chess
. 10x10 Variant that adds Camels, Stewards, Rotating Spearmen and Murray Lions to the standard mix. Author: David Howe. Inventor: John William Brown.
Chaturanga
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe.
Chaturanga
. Version with fancy graphics. Author: David Howe.
Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added
. On a 10 row by 8 column board, with three new pieces. By David Howe.
Chess with Different Armies
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Combination Chess
. Pieces give their movement capabilities to friendly pieces in their zone of influence. By David Howe.
Courrier Chess
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe.
Cycle Chess
. Variant on a board with 39 cells, three of which are special. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Andy Kurnia.
Eight Stone Chess
. On an 8 by 9 board with eight neutral stones. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
Eight Stone Chess
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Jim Aikin.
Feeble Chess
. Very weak pieces, but still 'chess-like'. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Feeble Los Alamos Chess
. Los Alamos Chess using Feeble pieces. By David Howe.
Grand Chess
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Christian Freeling.
Grande Acedrex
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe.
Heaven
. Pieces trying to reach a goalfield can only move if in reach of a friendly piece. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Rob Nierse.
InterGrid Chess
. Pieces on corners and on centers of squares of 8 by 8 board. By David Howe.
King and Queen
. Variant on cross-shaped board with 39 squares. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Dennis Xay Voong.
Knight-Tac-Toe
. Win by placing 3 pieces in a row. By David Howe.
Los Alamos Chess
. Chess on a 6x6 board. Author: David Howe.
Maelstrom
. All 64 squares of 8 by 8 board are initially filled with pieces. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Michael Asher.
Magician Chess
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Jonathon Whittle.
Modern Shatranj
. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj. Author: Christine Bagley-Jones and David Howe. Inventor: Joe Joyce.
Nahbi Chess
. Variant on 10 by 10 board with equator, Nahbi's and Archers. Author: David Howe and Uri Bruck. Inventor: Uri Bruck.
Omega chess
. Commercial chess variant on board with 104 squares. Author: David Howe.
Pick-the-Team chess
. Make up a list of pieces and choose your pieces from your and your opponents list. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Hans L. Bodlaender.
Robber-Baron
. Which of the seven robbers is the robber-baron? Author: David Howe. Inventor: Seth McGinnis.
Shatranj
. Version with fancy graphics. Author: David Howe.
Shogi
. Westernized version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe and Fergus Duniho.
Tamerlan Chess
. Westernized version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe.
Tamerlane Chess
. A well-known historic large variant of Shatranj. Author: David Howe.
Ultima
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Robert Abbott.
Ultima with Alternate Graphics
. Game where each type of piece has a different capturing ability. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Robert Abbott.
Weakest Chess
. Pieces are as weak as possible while still retaining chess-like qualities. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Xhatranj
. An exotic variant of Shatranj with more powerful pieces. By Christine Bagley-Jones and David Howe.
Xhess
. Version using Alfaerie graphics. By David Howe.
Xhess
. Decimal variant with Nightriders and Cannons. By David Howe.
Xiangqi
. Western Style. Version using Alfaerie graphics. Author: David Howe.
Review
3 Man Chess - Review. Review of commercial three player chess variant on round board. Author: David Howe.
Chess 2000 Review. Review of a large (12x13) commercial, chess-like game. Author: David Howe.
Feudal. Chesslike game of wellknown game company. Author: David Howe.
Heraldic Chess Review. A review of Modest Solans' game Heraldic Chess. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Modest Solans.
Hive: A Review. A review of the two-player strategy game called Hive. Author: David Howe.
Omega Chess Review. Review of commercial Chess variant set. Author: David Howe.
Review: 3 Man Chess. Missing description Author: David Howe.
Review: Heraldic Chess. A review of Modest Solans' game Heraldic Chess. Author: David Howe. Inventor: Modest Solans.
Review: Omega Chess. Review of commercial Chess variant set. Author: David Howe.
Review: Zillions-of-Games. Review of Windows program for playing user-programmed Chess variants and other strategy board games. Author: David Howe.
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