chess variants

[wlod]

Is this portal interested also in chess variants? Is there a special place around here to post on them?

Ragards,

• Wlod

[George Tsavdaris]

Is this portal interested also in chess variants? Is there a special place around here to post on them?

Here.

[hgm]

Not many are interested, but those that are, are interested a lot!

I just learned Fairy-Max how to play Berolina Chess. In this form of Chess, the Pawns capture straight ahead, but move diagonally. I still must make WinBoard handle the Pawn moves correctly. Without special support, it thinks all Pawn moves are e.p. captures, and many Pawns disappear from the display! I have n experimentl version that fixes this (by knowing variant Berolina), but it does not handle genuine Berolina e.p. capture correctly. This is a tricky problem, as unlike with normal Pawns, for Berolina Pawns there is no 1 to 1 reltion between the square where you capture to and the Pawn that disappears.

CRC now also works. And I can even do Courier Random Chess!

[wlod]

Is this portal interested also in chess variants? Is there a special place around here to post on them?

Here.

Very good. I'll take your word. Thank you,

• Wlod

[DomLeste]

Im a new fan of crazyhouse chess variation. Variant similar to Shogi chess very tactical! I wonder if George is good at this variation as well

[George Tsavdaris]

Im a new fan of crazyhouse chess variation. Variant similar to Shogi chess very tactical! I wonder if George is good at this variation as well

I like it also, but i don't know if i'm good at this.

Crazyhouse indeed is one of the best Chess-variants for me.

The best 8 for me are:
•1),2) Atomic Chess and Dark Chess with a big difference!!!!

•3)Gothic Chess(while this is not exactly Chess-variant).
•4)Progressive Chess(especially Scottish and not Italian).
•5)Three Checks Chess.
•6)Giveaway Chess(The so-called Suicide Chess or AntiChess or Losing Chess)
•7)Crazyhouse Chess.
•8)Ambiguous Chess.

I would like very much to play Dark Chess against other players through the internet(since this a computer only game, meaning it can't be played over the board), and i'm preparing a wish for Winboard_F or ChessGUI to implement it, but i don't know if what i ask is easy to do.

The same effect and even better would be a Dark Chess engine, so that i could play with it whenever i want. I would ask this also.
But i'm afraid that its implementation would be very difficult, not because it's difficult to create it but because it's difficult to create a decent engine AI, that would manage not to lose 1000-0 out of 1000 games.
What i mean is that even a novice AI in Dark Chess is very challenging and difficult to create.

[DomLeste]

Anyone know of some programs that plays crazyhouse? I know Sjeng does but my spyware find something in the program

If chess wants to eliminate draws then crazyhouse the way to go I dont think Chess960 the answer.

[hgm]

TJchess and SunSetter are Crazyhouse engines.

TJchess10x8 even can play a crazyhouse version of Capablanca Chess. (I never tested this, though, and I am not sure WinBoard_F would support it without protocol issues.

[George Tsavdaris]

Anyone know of some programs that plays crazyhouse? I know Sjeng does but my spyware find something in the program

Really?
Anyway what H.G.M said, as also Zillions of Games can play Grazyhouse.

If chess wants to eliminate draws then crazyhouse the way to go I dont think Chess960 the answer.

I don't like Chess960 either.

Here is one nice win of me in Crazyhouse Chess(that was one of my first games in that variant) against one top rated player on a site.
I think despite he was the top rated, the level of his play was not high, so i guess the level of play in the site was not high also:

[Jack Lad]

Anyone know of some programs that plays crazyhouse? I know Sjeng does but my spyware find something in the program

If chess wants to eliminate draws then crazyhouse the way to go I dont think Chess960 the answer.

Zon Jan is your man.

http://www.bughouse.net/downloads.htm