Box

Box

Kosintsev I.G.
(28.12.2020)

School chess

School chess

Kosintsev I.G.
(27.12.2020)

Mosaic is not only a handy stuff for playing classical chess at school. It is also an excellent tool for creating and study any kind of fairy chess variants.

External links:
Scientific American (223) (October 1970)
Gardner, Martin
"Mathematical Games - The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway's New Solitaire Game 'Life'".

Big Game

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley


Big Game

Kosintsev I.G.
(22.01.2021)

The chess variant Big Game represents a new approach to the invention and creation of 10x10 Grand chess. Not extended in front, but a compact arrangement of chess pieces are used, which is fully consistent with Fisher's concept of 'dominant chess' with high activity of all pieces.
This variant is close to the classical one and therefore allows the use of standard and well-known chess equipment and instruments.

Checker is a fairy chess piece Guard. Moves as Pasha (King and Alibaba).
Promotion rule: a pawn that reaches the eighth rank to be replaced of a guard of the same color, a guard that reaches the ninth or tenth rank to be replaced of a queen of the same color.

Pieces are simultaneously seven virtues of Bushido:
Justice（義）K
Courage（勇）Q
Benevolence（仁）B
Truthfulness（誠）R
Honor（名誉）N
Loyalty（忠義) G
Politeness/Respect（礼）P

External links:
1. Paulovits's game (Istvan Paulovits).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulovits%27s_game
2. Apronus
https://www.apronus.com/chess/diagram/editor/

Cook's chess (華棋)

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cook's chess (華棋)

Kosintsev I.G.
kosintsev.i.g@gmail.com
(12.08.2020)

The Free Chess Society supports and protects the individuality of each player. This means that chess pieces can have any fair interpretation. For example, you can play Waterloo by classical Dai shogi 大将棋 pieces with appropriate rules. This chess variant is called Cook's chess or 華棋.



The complete set has 60 double-sided pieces (checkers): 40 yellow/green and 20 red/blue:
1. King 王 or 玉: f10 and e1.
2. Queen 奔 f1,e10.
3. Rook 飛: b1,i1,b10,i10.
4. Lance 香: a1,k1,a10,k10.
5. Bishop 角: c1,h1,c10,h10.
6. Knight 桂: c2,h2,c9,h9.
7. Gold general 金: e2,f2,e9,f9.
8. Silver general 銀: d2,g2,d9,g9.
9. Copper general 銅:: b2,i2,b9,i9.
10. Iron general 鉄: a2,k2,a9,k9.
11. Lion 獅 d1,g1,d10,g10.
12. Pawn 歩: a3-k3, a8-k8.

Promotion is absent. The three furthest ranks are an opponent's kingdom. A pawn is moved from this ranks as king. A iron general is moved from this ranks as silver general. A copper general, lance or a knight is moved from this ranks as gold general.

Chess players are not idiots. Consequently, any classical obstruction against exellent variants of chess will disappear over time.

External links:
1. Dai shogi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_shogi
2. Ikebana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikebana

Izmail

Suwarrow now was conqueror — a match
For Timour or for Zinghis in his trade.
While mosques and streets, beneath his eyes, like thatch
Blazed, and the cannon's roar was scarce allay'd,
With bloody hands he wrote his first despatch;
And here exactly follows what he said: —
'Glory to God and to the Empress!' (Powers
Eternal! such names mingled!) 'Ismail 's ours.'
George Gordon Byron

Izmail

Kosintsev I.G.
kosintsev.i.g@gmail.com
(29.08.2020)

This is a fantastic novelty in western and eastern chess! The variant Izmail is a classical mirror-symetrical chess in the center of a 10x10 board with two additional pairs of Chinese chess Cannons located in the four corners of this board.

External links:
Shako
https://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/shako.html

Stalker (3-in-1)

HORATIO
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
HAMLET
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come...

William Shakespeare

Stalker (3-in-1)

Kosintsev I.G.
kosintsev.i.g@gmail.com
(20.10.2019)

Stalker is a chess variant created especially for inventors of various unfair strange curious peculiar chess pieces. In essence, this game is transposition of well-known Carrera's (1617), Bird's (1874) or Capablanca's (1920s) chess on a classical 8x8 board based on the idea of Shatranj's tabbiyyas. Two unfair pieces are arranged near King and Queen: Fantom near King, and Dragon near Queen. It's clear that extra pieces can represent or be interpreted as any invented pieces, for example, as Cardinal and Marshall or something else. It's also important that players nead only two checkers (obverse and reverse) in addition to the standard chess set. They can use the now popular 3-in-1 chess set.

The initial position is as shown in the diagram:



The yellow pieces:
1. Pawn (P): a3, b3, c3, d3, e3, f3, g3, h3 (8 pieces).
2. Knight (N): c2, f2 (2 pieces).
3. Bishop (B): d2, e2 (2 pieces).
4. Rook (R): b2, g2 (2 pieces).
5. Fantom (F): c1 (1 piece).
6. Dragon (D): f1 (1 piece).
7. Queen (Q): e1 (1 piece).
8. King (K): d1 (1 piece).

The green pieces:
1. Pawn (P): a6, b6, c6, d6, e6, f6, g6, h6 (8 pieces).
2. Knight (N): c7, f7 (2 pieces).
3. Bishop (B): d7, e7 (2 pieces).
4. Rook (R): b7, g7 (2 pieces).
5. Fantom (F): f1 (1 piece).
6. Dragon (D): c1 (1 piece).
7. Queen (Q): d1 (1 piece).
8. King (K): e1 (1 piece).

All rules are classical, excluding features of extra pieces.
Castling is the King’s leap through one piece to the left or two pieces to the right.

Of course, this game can be used to assess the real strength (relative value) of chess pieces. But such a mercantile idea contradicts the philosophy of chess as a combinatorial game in which all depends on the position.
This means that every class of aditional pieces has its own appropriate more sutable Fisher's permutation of pieces. For example, for weak pieces is better such initial position.



The perfect initial position of Stalker is such:



This game can be played also with a dropping.

Literature:
1. Авербах Ю.Л.
Шахматная школа: Курс лекций для шахматистов-разрядников.
Ростов-на-Дону: издательство «Феникс», 2004.
2. Стругацкий Б.Н., Стругацкий А.Н.
Пикник на обочине.
3. Александр Беляев
Голова профессора Доуэля.
KM Classic, 2018.
4. Владимир Набоков
Защита Лужина.
Изд.: Азбука-классика, 2006.

Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse

Kosintsev I.G.
kosintsev.i.g@gmail.com
(04.08.2019)

Mickey Mouse is a new mini variant of chess. This chess is a commercial game that can also be played with a single card deck.