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Chess Variants

"How can we make anything more from just these black and white squares?"

My answer to that question is: with imagination, much! There are lots of people that agree with me and there are several hundreds (thousands?) of different games based on chess, called chess variants (CV's). I present here, my 2 cents to this increasing Universe. I hope you'll enjoy it!

My Chess Variants Physics and Chess Inertia Chess Entropy Chess Magnetic Chess       [NOST's Chess Variant of the decade (1990 - 1999). Check this review.] Chaos Chess Particle Collision Chess Rotation Chess Conditional Chess Diplomacy Chess Soccer Chess Progressive Orthodox Chess Swap Chess Balanced Swap Chess The Weak Square of the Jumping King Sandwich Chess The Crab City Economy and Chess Loaning in Marseille Loaning in PieceLand Zorkmiding the Board The interest of some pieces The interest of some moves Do you want a job? This horse business is mine! Taking turns Hard Times Great Expectations Making a portfolio The CV Index Unreal Tournament Chess Domination Chess Catch the Flag Chess Assault Chess Traitor Chess Heisenberg Chess Portuguese Progressive Chess Hyperspace Chess Impossible Chess The Knightliest Black Hole The Central Squares Heaven and Hell The Hitchhiker's Guide to Chess  (find 20 new variants and the secrets of Chess, Life and Everything!) Promotions & Demotions   Connect Chess   Light & Shadow   Construction Chess   Revolving games

My ZoG Files

	The Weak Square of the Jumping King
	Different Armies (CVs by Ralph Betza)
	Swap Chess
	Crab City
	Magnetic Chess (together with Fergus Duniho)
	Promotions & Demotions
	The Knightliest Black Hole
	The Central Squares

Image Files for Zillions (16 pieces, 45 Kb)

Chess Challenges           (if you have any suggestion, please tell me)

	Reversing the Arrow of Time
	Chess Skills
	The 36 gifts
	Proposals for Zillions 2
	Mutators - The mechanics for changing games

Links

The Chess Variant Pages [what's ?]

The 1st infinitely expandable PC gaming system. Need to say more?

MindSports - An arena for abstract and board game players.

The 4th Mind Sports Olympiad in London, August 2000.

Yahoo! Clubs chessvariants.  Yahoo! Clubs abstract games.

Variations on Go - my variants around the game of GO

Abstract Games Magazine - the name says it all!

AISE: The Italian Association of Chess Variants. Contact Alessandro Castelli.

NOST: The Knights of the Square Table

BCVS: The British Chess Variant Society

A new place to play free chess, attend Lectures watch Banter Chess, chat, view live chess games, and much more!

The Best Chess Tables website - Looking for a Chess Table?

ItaProb : Mailing list (Italian and English) for Chess Problems and ChessBoard puzzles. Contact Mario Velucchi.

Check Jean-Louis Cazaux's Chess Site. He wrote already two books on Chess, the  Guide des Echecs exotiques et insolites and L'Univers des Echecs.

Andy Kurnia's and  Richard Rognlies's PBeM Servers

Play online at FICS (USA), at PICS (Portugal), or in other places. To get a chess client, try downloading this one.

Chess Variant pages from Ralph Betza [currently not available]