This website was born after Patrick Bernier told me about
a variant he invented: l'Échiqueté ('Checkered' here), which involves
pieces that both sides can play.
- Back then in 2012, I developed a small website allowing to play this variant
+ Back in 2012, I developed a small website allowing to play this variant
by correspondance.
A few years later I had a prototype to play in live, then other variants
- were added and the website was made more attractive.
+ were added.
h3 Notes
p ELO rating is purposely absent from this website.
p.
- Games start by default with a random asymmetric position.
- Random symmetric or even deterministic positions are available too,
- if you prefer more fairness (but also less fun? :-P ).
+ Most games can start from three initial setups: deterministic
+ (the usual one), or random – symmetric or not.
h3 Contribute
testing, giving ideas, motivating me to achieve this project.
Thanks to you all! :-)
-h3 Links
+h3 Related links
#links
- a(href="https://greenchess.net/") greenchess.net
a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/") chessvariants.com
- a(href="http://pychess-variants.herokuapp.com/") pychess-variants
+ a(href="https://greenchess.net/") greenchess.net
+ a(href="https://www.pychess.org/") pychess.org
+ a(href="https://fishrandom.io/") fishrandom.io
+ a(href="https://glukkazan.github.io/") Dagaz demo + server
+ a(href="https://mindsports.nl/index.php") mindsports.nl
+ a(href="https://www.jocly.com/#/games") jocly.com
+ a(href="http://www.iggamecenter.com/") iggamecenter.com
+ a(href="https://boardspace.net/english/index.shtml") boardspace.net
+ a(href="https://musketeerchess.net/home/index.html") musketeerchess.net
a(href="https://schemingmind.com/") schemingmind.com
- div
- a(href="https://echekk.fr/spip.php?page=rubrique&id_rubrique=1") echekk.fr
- span (in French)
+ a(href="https://boardgamearena.com/") boardgamearena.com
+ a(href="https://echekk.fr/spip.php?page=rubrique&id_rubrique=1") echekk.fr
+ a(href="http://www.strategems.net/sections/fairy_defs.html") strategems.net
a(href="https://brainking.com/") brainking.com
+ a(href="https://www.playok.com/") playok.com
+ a(href="http://abrobecker.free.fr/chess.htm") (Chess) Puzzles and Games
+ a(href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/592562551198628") A Facebook group
+ a(href="http://www.zillions-of-games.com/") zillions-of-games.com
+ a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece") Fairy chess pieces
+ a(href="http://gambiter.com/chess/variants/Fairy_chess_piece.html")
+ | Another list
+ a(href="http://www.pion.ch/echecs/liste_variantes.php") pion.ch
+ a(href="https://www.jatektan.hu/_2018_vissza/2011_ig/uj2001/isakk1.html")
+ | List of variants
+ a(href="https://chessvariants.training/") chessvariants.training