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 improved to be 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 ).
h3 Contribute
p
a(href="https://github.com/yagu0/vchess") The source code
- | is freely available on Github: the main ingredients are Express, Node.js,
- | Vue and Webpack. The chosen DBMS is SQLite for now at least.
+ | is freely available on Github.
+ | It relies on Express, Vue and Webpack.
| All contributions are welcome:
ul
li Translations: see client/src/translations/ folder
h3 Acknowledgments
-p
- | Quite many people helped for this website,
- | testing, giving ideas, motivating me to achieve this project.
- | To avoid writing a long list I will only mention two groups:
- | thanks to
- ul
- li.
- Patrick Bernier [*], Frédéric Fradet, Olive Martin, Bevis Martin,
- Laurent Nouhaud and Christian Poisson (version 2012 [*] and subsequent);
- li
- | Nathalie Merlin and lichess players O42, oceansideview, okei and
- | opperwezen who tried
- a(href="https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/vchessclub--play-chess-variants?page=10") the 2018/12 version
- | .
- | Finally, the websites
+p.
+ Quite many people helped for this website,
+ testing, giving ideas, motivating me to achieve this project.
+ Thanks to you all! :-)
+
+h3 Related links
+
+#links
a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/") chessvariants.com
- | and
+ a(href="https://greenchess.net/") greenchess.net
+ a(href="http://pychess-variants.herokuapp.com/") pychess-variants.com
+ 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://musketeerchess.net/home/index.html") musketeerchess.net
a(href="https://schemingmind.com/") schemingmind.com
- | were very helpful.
+ 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