Pioneer54: An assistant moderator ;) ... though there is little to do these days.

I have, as you will note, refrained from correcting grammar and the like as I believe the intent of what is said can be gathered from the words used.

As to bringing suggestions to Fencer, this has happened in the past with varying degrees of success ... usually more through the Feature requests boards and the like. AS for reading each board, I think you will find that Fencer does keep an eye on most (of the public ones at least).

All these suggestions are good but as someone else has noted there are already places where things can be trialled and I am sure a google or two will find programs to run stand alone. It might be that the best this board can do is offer an opportunity for like minded peoples to get together to trial options using one of these other methods.

In all, it does make interesting reading and it is good to see such a rich lnadscape of ideas

WQ :)

It might be interesting to have a tournament format like we have to *gammon; one where you score 5 points if you take all your opponent kings without losing any of yours, 3 points if you only lost 1 king, and 1 point if you lost 2 of your kings.

AbigailII: Not only for this game, but a lot more games can describe a "solid" victory over a minor one. These can also be tripled.

joshi tm: Yes, but measuring "solid victories" isn't the point. The point is adding more decisions for game play. For *gammon, the player can have the option to play more risky to go for a gammon instead of a safe play for the normal win - for Dice Chess may decide to defend his kings where he otherwise wouldn't.

AbigailII: Curious suggestion! Would the doubling cube be used? If a double was declined, how many points would the offeror get?

One obstacle may be the time. Dice10 takes much longer than the gammon games, so a short time control (I'd say one day, or less) might be almost essential, otherwise the whole thing could take years.

Pioneer54: Curious suggestion! Would the doubling cube be used?

No. It's not used in the current Triple Gammon tournaments, so I don't see the need.

One obstacle may be the time. Dice10 takes much longer than the gammon games, so a short time control (I'd say one day, or less) might be almost essential, otherwise the whole thing could take years.

Why? Whether you play with "normal" scoring or the scoring I suggested will not affect the average game length by much. And while I have finished a number of Dice 10 games, I didn't get the impression such games take an overly long number of moves, they are certainly shorter than most Anti- or Cloning- gammon games I've played.

But you are free to not join tournaments if the move time is longer than a day. And once you're a rook, you're free to define tournaments with move times of a day or less. Don't expect me to join them though.

Now we have Dice Chess, can we have als Dice Shogi ;) ?

And Dice Logik.

AbigailII: Alright, I see your point, although there is still a random movement factor with the die roll; so, if you really seek a strategy enhancement (i.e., safeguarding the Kings), why not suggest the same game and tournament type without the dice?

I get the feeling that Dice Chess 10 would even have been better if played on a 10x8 board. Now the pawns are just too far away to play any significant offensive role. And promotion is very rare.

Perhaps Dice Chess 10x8 as another, easy to implement, variant?

AbigailII: I've had several games come down to the pawns...
perhaps another version?

I thought it would be almost impossible to have a Dice 10x10 game where one player wins by taking three kings and no other pieces, and without losing a piece him/herself as well. But I did it, in just 13 moves; 9 of them with a knight here.

AbigailII: That could be a nice achievement too.

I ran into an interesting situation in dice chess 10x10. (Well maybe not that interesting )

There is this rule "If a pawn is to be promoted (would advance to the last row), the player can move it even if the die does not show 1. However, he can only promote it to the piece chosen by the die roll - for example, if 3 is rolled, the pawn can be promoted to a bishop only. If 1 is rolled, the pawn can be promoted to any piece."

I had a pawn that could promote, however, the dice roll was a 6. So, of course the system would not let me advance my pawn, because it would have had to have been promoted to a King. Maybe that should be added to the rules as an exception? Or maybe it's common sense?

rod03801: The rules for Dice Chess list the differences between regular Chess and Dice Chess. Considering promotion to King isn't listed as a difference, the rules already cover a pawn cannot promote to King.

However, I find the current rules a bit silly. If your Pawn is one move away from being promoted, you'll never roll that 3 if you don't already have a Bishop. IMO, if one can promote a Pawn, all rolls 1 .. 5 (and 6 if the King can move) should be possible to roll.

Do you want play Modern Grand Chess?
http://chess-checkers-go.blogspot.com/2010/02/modern-chess.html

bombino: Did you play this game? What are your experiences?

Has anyone played it? I think it would be great to have on this site.

Hello all, and first of all my best wishes for this new year,

I'm searching for people who would be interested to play some online live games of Grand Chess or Omega Chess.

If you're interested, please contact me.

Regards.

facteurix: I'd like to play Embassy Chess or Dark Chess live. Are there any sites that have them? Where can you play Grand Chess live?

Walter Montego: I'd like to watch you play dark chess live..lol but I'd be interested in playing live games as well.

Bwild: Was there not a time when Fencer was thinking of making some of the games play live? Dark Chess would be a great game to play live. Short time limits would be crazy. Longer time limits would make for a good game.

I've been hoping that the people that program all of these games would add many of the variants, but it seems that all they know is regular Chess. Sure the programs let you play regular Chess against the machine for solitary play, but I am more interested in using the programs to play games with people. It'd be nice to have a way to hook up monitors to one computer, or some sort of interface for the various devices that could keep track of different players for many games, such as Battleship, Dominoes, card games, and of course Dark Chess. Such a program or interface would be great for playing while traveling or where space or time are at a minimum. Imagine playing Dominoes, Dark Chess, or Cribbage with a friend while waiting for your bus or plane and just saving the game in progress to continue while on the plane. And with limited space without a table to play on, it'd easy to play with each of you holding your own device or monitor to keep your side from being seen by your opponent.

Hello all,
it's possible to play live Grand Chess at igooglegamecenter.com

A forced draw after 107 moves.
Dice Chess 10x10 (bert515 vs. Wait for Sleep)

Has it ever happened before?!?!?

Could it be something is broken in this DiceChess game?
Dice Chess 10x10 (iv2 vs. Aganju)

We are at move 17, and I have never yet rolled a 1 (= move a pawn)

10x10 superchess "life" tournament in Zaandam. Rules: www.superchess.nl If you want to play, come tot Zaandam (The Netherlands) on April 13th 12.30 Papenpad 12 Zaandam.

tangram: Edwin Poels won again, but had to struggle all games, drawing only with Fred Kok (tangram)

Hi to everyone!
Are there already some theory in Grand Chess, named openings and such? On Mindsports.nl (GC creator's site) one can't find anything. I would be thankful for any info about GC.
Thanks in advance.

shows an advanced OmegaChess variant that may intrique some of you earth creatures.

Just move your connected rooks back and forth until you can claim a draw... :)

ketchuplover:

Just regular Omega Chess is fine. Omega Chess can be pretty good, but the starting position of the pieces makes the opening slow.

...you gotta do the job yourself:

Σκάκι Ζαριών 10χ10 (sacha εναντίον WhiteTower)

(link at sequence start - thanks, playBunny!)

WhiteTower: You're welcome. It's an impressive campaign that your king wages!

I invite everybody to come and play chess variants during The abstract games meeting " denken bij de Zaan" ( thinking by the river Zaan )  4 october 

tangram: Wishing you a great time

tangram:

tangram: Congratulations!
Are there any games of interest to check out? Did you play various games, or just one type?

Walter Montego:we played:

tangram: The Joker sounds like the Chameleon in Ultima. Does the Joker capture the piece that it is capturing in the manner of that piece's movement? The Magician sounds like the Immobilizer. If it keeps a piece from moving just by being next to it, that's what the Immobilizer is. Very strong piece and it cannot capture.

I've never heard of Khan Chess or Super Chess. That does seem like a fast time control for a tournament, especially with even more pieces and larger board size.

Walter Montego:Yes like the chameleon. 15 minuten is much too vast. I Will not repeat that in the next tournament.

Khan Chess sounds interesting. Every once in awhile I'll see if I can touch each side of the board with my King in a game of Dark Chess.

I have wondered if playing Embassy Chess with Dark Chess's darkness and rules would work as a game as well as Dark Chess itself does. Or just playing a tournament such as yours playing Dark Chess.

tangram: May they savor the spoils!

tangram: congrats!

10x10 Khan chess tournament  ( see www.khanchess.com ) 

tangram:

Place to be Zaandam february 13 th 2016

tangram:we had 7 players in our 10x 10 tournament.

possible is 6 moves