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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 19:28:58 +0200
From: freeling@euronet.nl (Christiaan Freeling)
Subject: chr-freeling-chess-systems.hqx; 11 chess variants
CHESS SYSTEMS BY CHRISTIAAN FREELING (CONGO © DEMIAN FREELING).
Between 1976 and 1984 I was possessed with a spirit that cared
a great deal about abstract games of pure strategy. It died
eventually, of lack of ambition, and left me with a legacy of
some forty games. Ten of these are Chess systems.
All of them, Chad in particular, were played extensively at the
games club 'Fanatic' at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
All of them, too, appear in David Pritchard's 'The Encyclopedia of
Chess Variants' (G&P Publications, P.O. Box 20, Godalming,
Surrey GU8 4YP, U.K. ; ISBN 0-9524142-0-1).
Grand Chess in particular is also featured in
R. Wayne Schmittberger's 'New Rules for Classic Games'
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York; ISBN 0-471-53621-0) and in
Games Magazine (January 1987).
This archive contains descriptions (with full colour diagrams) of
eleven Chess systems. They are:
Chad
HexChad
Sjakti
Caïssa
Chakra
Congo
Loonybird
Dragonfly
Yari Shogi
Rotary
Grand Chess
The one important game in this compilation is Grand Chess. Anyone
who wrote a good Chess program and has half a mind to modify it
into a Grand Chess program and put a demo on the Net on a fifty
fifty basis regarding the codes, is welcome to contact me at the
following address:
Christiaan Freeling
Pollenbrink 181
7544 AW Enschede
The Netherlands
+31 53 769075
Net: freeling@euronet.nl
All games: © Christiaan Freeling, except Congo: © Demian Freeling.