panzerschiff: It`s a pity, but I received a message that no Januschessets are available, because their is a license problem too in Germany.
It looks that I have got the last real Januschesspieces. Pics are on my page.
Meanwhile I have received a Gothicchesset from Ed Trice (10x8 board and pieces) and I must say it is very nice and I would recommend to use it for all 10x8 variants.

panzerschiff: Try http://www.spezialschach.de/

You can find it also in my profile.

Here is an additional link to replay the game:

http://caissus.gmxhome.de/Partieen/gothicgames.htm

JinkyOng: was undefeated in 10x8 chess.

http://brainking.com/de/Profile?u=3629

The last games he lost on time because he was banned.
But it has to say nothing because have not the strongest players here.

Can anybody perhaps translate this game in algebraic notation? Thanks.

JinkyOng: I knew that you would win! But why do I not find the game here : http://www.gothicchesslive.com/players-games.php ?

I have to announce that I have received a Gothic chesset by Ed Trice today.

It was the second prize of a tournement (GC) and I have to thank him.

SMIRF Engine: Sorry, have to answer in German at the German board.

SMIRF Engine: Can you give an example for such a position, please?

And why should there be an additional advantage for W in a mirrored position?

Pythagoras: old faultfinder....

SMIRF Engine: A Player, who is playing only one game and has finished only 3 8x10 chessgames.But he is discussing about 10x8 chess as he is the world`s greatest expert in this theme.

Generally I think it is not necessary to quote again and again large statements by a person who is banned at all BK-db`s. And his game is banned also.

One last quote ( by Trice) : "Caissus gets a free Gothic Chess set for coming in second place. Contact me at GothicChessInfo@aol.com to send me the address to send your prizes." It was on 07/13/2005 and I am waiting until today for the second prize.

Walter Montego: I think these tips in chessvariants.com are very old ,because we pay in € today and no more in DM. I never received a answer about my questions from Stefan Blasius or the owner of www.janusschach.de.
But I will contact tomorrow the Schachhaus Madler because of Janusschessboards and -sets will report here.

"Caissas Traumland" http://brainking.com/de/ShowFellowship?fid=303
We are looking for a teamcompetition with another fellowship in januschess,two games each player and four days timecontrol. If you have a team with at least four players and an bkr-average above 1500 please send me an pm in the next days .Thanks.

We have now four games with AB`s/Janus : CRC, Grande Chess, Embassy Chess and Janus Chess and three of them have the same symbol for the knight/bishop piece except Janus Chess.

Would it not make sense to change now the symbol for the Janus according to the other three games?

Pythagoras: I think Andreas is right : Fisher has no chances against Kasparow or the other strong players of the world.He is too old and has not played tournement games since a very long time...

ChessCarpenter: But ist is curious, that only 29 of the 150 members have played at least one game .Are the most players not able to play a 10 minutes game?

Then I will establish two records!

http://brainking.com/de/ArchivedGame?g=1111972

danoschek: unfortunately is the graphics in MAX not so good. I have changed the pieceset a little bit to have a real janus:
http://caissus.gmxhome.de/netgame1.zip
Who is able to paint a better pieceset for MAX?

...is not such a strong program as "Vortex" or "Smirf".Anyhow it has some interesting features:It is freeware,it has a fullscreen display and his handling allows fast and blitzgames.You can try out to beat Max in Janus or Gothic in a fast 15 minutes game and it is not easy.
Menu - Live - Challenge - choosing the game and the time.
The following game was played by me with a 15 minutes time limit: http://caissus.gmxhome.de/Partieen/janusgames.htm?0_1665

http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=egtb&lang=de

Nasmichael: It was Nigel Short ,of course.

Nasmichael (4. April 2005, 00:05:01)
Message corrected.

Any favorite Janus games?

Current tournaments:


Birthday Bash ---5 Irishrose
Try something new ---jaha
Summer Time Is Coming --- Irishrose
Spring Is Here ---5 Irishrose
► ALL games for dummies (under 1500 & unrated) #8◄ ---5 BIG BAD WOLF
playing games --5 NikNack
All games tounament you name it,it's there. fun!! -- Universal Eyes
Best of the VERY Best! (All Games!) -- KevJon
All Games for M.M. --Mach Machovic
Chess Variants for Beginners --Seravajan
May Day all games tourny --snowhugs
May Mayhem -- Nirvana
THE HIT MANS OPEN GAMES -- THE HIT MAN
Å -- jaha
NikNack games #6 -- NikNack
maximum do 1500BKR --MJL
NikNack games #8 --NikNack


Of course, I haven't checked all of these sites to see if enough players have signed up to play Janus.
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" "The Philadelphia Open will be played February 18-20, 2005 at the Wyndham Philadelphia Hotel! This tournament is a 7 round Swiss with a G75 + 5 sec delay. You can register here at http://www.gothicchess.org/register_philly_open.html"

What happened with this tournement and who won it?
Are the played games available?

Sumerian: what has a "nightrider" to do with capaches and why is his worth so low?

mahavrilla: "Janus-Peter Leko being a Janus 4 time world champion"

Where have you found theses informations?

Chessmaster1000:I agree CM, but it is only Edtrice`s matter to let us play in peace and to be quiet about his patent,which makes trouble at this site incessently.We only want play our games in peace and you should perhaps write your complains to someone other.If this is not possible we should play perhaps better a variant,which lets one or two pawns unprotected,but we can play without trouble,"Aberg-variation" or "CRC" for example.

Stormerne: Although I am a fan of GC I must say that for many beginners in chess it would be better first to become a better chessplayer and then to learn the more complicated game of GC with his two more pieces and the bigger board.

Stormene,you are right with your opinion, many (good) chessplayers have said to to me: "Why should I play this bigger chessgame,if I am so a bad player in the original chess?"
(Mostly the good chessplayers know that they play bad, and mostly the bad players are thinking that they play good :-)).

I don`t think that GC will become the mainstream of chess in the near future, it is a really interesting game but it will be only a game for a few and not for many! It has to do with the patent and with the fact that chess itsself is not solved.

Walter Montego:

I think the previous icon is also a little bit blurred ?

http://caissus.gmxhome.de/WJanus.jpg
http://caissus.gmxhome.de/BJanus.jpg
http://caissus.gmxhome.de/bcardinal.jpg
http://caissus.gmxhome.de/wcardinal.jpg

Walter Montego: I think the most important informations,you can also find here or at chessvariants.com

Walter Montego: No Walter, it is in German only.

you can look here : http://www.janusschach.de/
But the Januschessfederation is very inactive at the moment. The best is to look at chessvariants.com or ...here.At the moment I am collecting games on my page,please look at my profile.

gotti2000: I would suggest we switch to the Janusboard...

gotti2000: No gotti ,that is the official "Janus" piece.
BTW it is only important, that you have two additional pieces for your piecesset. Then you can use them as Janus,AB,Chancellor,Wizard,for the Chinese Chess or whatever

The Auerswald-tool uses for the standard pieces the German abbreviations and for the AB the "A" for the chancellor the "C".Even so we can speak in German about "Kanzler" and "Kardinal".I don`t like the "Erzbischof".
Example: http://caissus.gmxhome.de/Partieen/caissusgothic.htm

Or Kardinal with the "C" (Cardinal) and for the chancellor the often used "Marschall" (Marshall) with the "M".

starts on o1.01.2005. Last chance to join in!

Dresden: but you can become the first German Champion in Gothic - at once!

Dresden: We have in Germany 69 Grandmasters,205 International Masters and 623 Fidemasters (male and female). Only Fidechess without correspondence chess and problems!

In Auerswald`s PGN-tool there is the "0" instead the "10" too.Are there different standards?

EdTrice:
Thanks.I must say,that I have missed your Janussacrifice in this position.
I have sent this game to the journal already and it will be published perhaps in January or February.

I have created the New Year Janus Chess Open for all players!
The best games of this tournement will be published in the German chess journal "Rochade Europa"!

That`s for sure!

And here is the solution with all nice variants:
1.) J2h3! threat 2.Jixg4#
Every of Black`s effort to defend results in another checkmate:
1.) ... , Qe4 . 2.) Be6# .
1.) ... , Jd4+ . 2.) Sxd4# .
1.) ... , Jxe5 . 2.) Rxe5# .
1.) ... , Jh6 . 2.) Jxh6# .
1.) ... , Jj7 . 2.) Jg7# .
1.) ... , Rf4 . 2.) Jxg3# .
1.) ... , Bxe7+ 2.) Sxe7# .
1.) ... , Sxd7+ 2.) Qxd7# .
1.) ... , Si3 2.) Jh4# .
1.) ... , gxh3 2.) Jxh3# .
1.) ... , g5 . 2.) Jhxg4# .

In "Feenschach" Germany 1998 was published the following januschessproblem composed by Udo Marks:

W checkmates in two moves

Solution soon !

What is standard,hm?I think in the real chess the Staunton pieces are a standard.In virtual chess the most computers and chessservers use pieces as we have here in Bk and they are very similar to the Stauntonpieces.In chessvariants.com they have the alfaerie-chessset.The icons for the chancellor and the cardinal are very logical and selfdeclarend.In Janusschess we have an icon,which was defined by the inventor and the januschessfederation http://www.janusschach.de/.

Your pieceset is nice,Reinhard.But I personnally would prefer to play with standard pieces like here:
Link

I have bought my pieces here:
http://members.aol.com/DreierR/
and my 8x10 board at:
http://www.schachdepot.de/germany/home.htm
If not available you can make the board yourself,and also the chancellor. Pics at: http://caissus.gmxhome.de/Schach.htm