Now you can read about this new Chess Variant here:

http://www.geocities.com/purpledove2k/impchs.txt

Whisperz: May I have your permission to publish your idea on this file along with the proper credit? Lemme know.

I asked Fencer about "Omega Chess" and he wants to add this game perhaps later.

I had another look at chessvariants.com and it has some pretty strict rules for new contributors. For instance, the rule that the Inventor or the friend of the Inventor cannot submit new Chess Variants to them. And that one saying the game must be around for at least a year is a real monkey-deal as well -- though I understand their reasons.

I guess me and my Co-Exec will just have to find another way for Imposter Chess to take flight. Perhaps Fencer could consider adding it on BK in the future? Of course we would make sure to have all the proper rules in place before it got that far -- but it's a nice dream.


Sincerely,
Magenta Spiral
Imposter Chess Inventor

You can look at lots of chess variants at www.chessvariants.com you can look at several chess variants there. Would anyone like to play Omega Chess?

Indeed we may, Whisperz :·)

I'm going to do some major research at that website, see if there's an easy way to publish this variant.

Magenta Spiral
Imposter Chess© Inventor

Had a look and, wow, there a lot of variants already there. On my brief look I didn't find our new one though, so maybe we have something MS.

Whisperz
Imposter Chess© Co-Exec

Thanks Caissas! I'll look into that...

You can publish your new chessvariant as inventors at www.chessvariants.com!

Interesting!

Magenta Spiral
Inventor of Imposter Chess

P.S. Whisperz, you got some great ideas! Wanna be my Co-Exec? ;·)

How about, if a player uses a piece to escape check then the piece is returned to its original owner for placement at their very next turn as that turn, otherwise the imposting King can keep the piece and use it again?

© Improvements to Imposter Chess© Whisperz 2003

Kevin: Well, the rule is you can only choose ONE captured piece to use per Check situation.

So, if you capture a Knight and a Queen, like you said, then you'd only get to choose one of them for your King to be Imposterized by.

So if you capture the queen and a knight, it would probably be almost impossible to checkmate - that would allow it to move like a maharajah - and it's hard enough to checkmate a maharajah by itself, let alone with the rest of the chess set-up there! :-)

"Once the king has moved as that piece to get out of check, can that same piece be used to get out of check again, or would they have to have another knight (or whatever piece it was)?"

The answer is yes, that captured piece could be used to Imposterize your King again.
As expected, this would make it very difficult for your opponent to Checkmate you! Of course there still could be some things to work out. I'm always open to suggestions for this new game idea, so feel free to speak your mind :·)

"Also, i'm assuming the king could only move like this when in check?"

Correct.

implementing rules that are not written down is nonsense ~*~

Not bad, but I'd rather have the engineer work on fixing the rules rather than give the users a manual fix.
Fencer, what's the scope of work for fixing backgammon? All you need to do is test all the possible moves to see if a 2 move option is available, and if not if a move involving the larger of the two dice.

pictures: Why not let users link to pictures that are hosted elsewhere - then it does not take any server space?

.... and possible a paid member only option. (If you open it to pawn, you will probable start to get many unappropriate pictures - which you may get some from members, but not as many as you would by pawns.)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

There has been some discussion in the BrainKing DB about the rules of Backgammon. There may come a time when someone who is not aware of the correct rules wishes to, in fairness to and in agreement with their opponent, retract an incorrect move and play something differemt. The same may occur in other games, although I haven't seen any such discussion.

Or another scenario is when friends (chess purists block your ears or close your eyes) play they may, by mutual consent, agree to one player playing differently.

I think you get my drift ... an undo move would be good.

You're quite right, Caissas. Paul is the owner of the yahoo group, and he's done a great job but there are still not as many pics there as we'd like. Hopefully it will build, theres new pics going there all the time, most are 'real' and a few are just for fun.
I agree it would be better to have pictures here on our profiles, but as an alternative the yahoo group is open for everyone.

Thx harley, I have been joined in the yahoogroup, but I find it better here in BK.In the yahoogroup are only a few members and some pics are only nonsense, they should be deleted.And the playing here could be lesser anonymous.

Or you could join the yahoo group! There are quite a few members now, and many have put their pictures up in the photo album there.

Click here to join the yahoo group!

We'd love to see many more pictures there! I think its a great idea having pictures on profiles here, but for now.....!! Come and join!!

Not a bad idea, CaissasDream! You are fortunate to be blessed with good looks. However our maker saw fit (probably for a bet) to give me a face like a smacked bulldog's bum.
I suspect there are others like me. *looks over nervously at Kevin*
Of course Kevin isn't one of those unfortunate to languish with anguish in the latter category I'm sure.
It could prove beneficial for me though. It could throw my opponents off their game and I could nip in and clinch victory while they're groping for the bucket (which, like coffee, would become a pre-requisite for gaming on brainking).

Yes, that wouldn't add up nearly as fast :-)

Maybe 40x30 icons could do the trick ;-)

100KB * 7000 players = 700GB = a LOT of memory space. And remember - we get more players all the time. I realize most players will not place their picture there, but it has the possibility of taking up a lot of space.

If you want your opponent's to be able to see your picture, make a site at geocities or something like that, and put your picture on it.

Perhaps would be useful to have a upload of a small bitmap of the player (max 100kb) in the profile.I see this at the Fritz/Chessbase server and then the playing is more personnally because you see your opponent.

tactician: Assuming i remember correctly, Pro reversi will start with the first four pieces in place, and reversi race counts the number of flipped pieces, rather than how many pieces you currently have. Someone said, however, that it will be the same winner anyways :-)

Once the king has moved as that piece to get out of check, can that same piece be used to get out of check again, or would they have to have another knight (or whatever piece it was)?

Also, i'm assuming the king could only move like this when in check?

I just got this great idea for a new Chess variation! It's called Imposter Chess.

The rules are all the same as in Western Chess except for the Switch Rule. It goes something like this:

(Note: This only works during Check not Checkmate.)

Whenever your King is in Check, you have the option to temporarily change your King into the Imposter which allows you to take one of your opponent's captured pieces and make your King move like the chosen piece does.

For Example: If White's King is in Check, then White can Imposterize its King into moving like a captured Black Knight.

                 What do ya think?

You may use this idea as long as you give the proper credit. :·)

Imposter Chess
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© Laila A.K.A. Magenta Spiral
All Rights Reserved

I've never heard of these variants yet it says they are in development, any info on them?

Fencer, my good man..
Can you give us an idea to `how far into the future' will it be for "Sabotage and it's variants"
to be added to this site??

I would prefer to have the "filter" in "My Tournaments" default to "All". Maybe users could set default. Certainly not a top priority. Thanks, R*L

i would also like to see ex chess in a different colour as i am just learning the game and i am still muddling that and plain chess

ROFL, spoilsport, grenv!!! lol!! :oD

Just make sure it isn't implemented for Dark Chess!

I think so.

In Go-Moku (5 in a line) does your opponent see the board from a different view ??

jason: Yes, it will be implemented.

Just to clarify Jason's post: The game boards, not the discussion boards. (When i first read it, i thought he meant the discussion boards) :-)

fencer would it be possible to put an option on the boards so we can turn them around (so we can see the board from the opponents view) i think this would be usefull for some of the games especially go-moko
thanks

I think I read about this before, but I don't remember....

If a pawn has 16 games going, and he is getting ready to start a tournament which will start 4 games (giving him 20 games - the pawn limit), it will not start it because the system thinks they do not have enough empty slots for all games...... but they do!

So I was just wondering if (1) this bug is known about by Fencer and (2) if this is going to be fixed.

Thanks!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Actually now that I think about it, it would be nice is Backgammon race had a different color around the board.

It does have a different starting position, but what happens to me a lot is that I will leave 1 or 2 of my pieces on the "bar" until later in the game. If I'm not paying attention, I will quickly look at the game, see the pieces on the bar (and thinking that it is regular Backgammon), I will start to move them off the bar.......... instead of moving pieces that are already on the board since I don't have to take the pieces off the bar yet.

For Nackgammon - it is similar enough to regular Backgammon that it does not need a different color, but for race... I could use a light green or blue or something... :-)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

P.S. I also agree that Extinction Chess needs a different color.

Extinction chess needs a color code. I've screwed up several times there because i thought it was regular chess.

Right.

It makes sense that anti-backgammon is different since you are playing differently than you would in normal backgammon. However the other variants (Nackgammon, Race etc) simply have different starting positions so it isn't necessary to distinguish one from the other during the play. In fact it might be distracting.

Just my 2c

All anti-games are red and many other variants are have colored outlines, e.g. loop chess is dark blue, three checks chess is light green etc. :-)

I just started playing "Other than Normel" Backgammon games,,,
I really like the way Anti-Backgammon is done in RED...
I don't have to try to remember which game is which,,,
can you make the other games different colors as well??
It is very cool!!
Thanks :)