What was new in August 1998?

August 31, 1998: Pawns Chess. Each pawn has a unique ability.
August 31, 1998: ItsYourTurn.com. Website that allows turn based playing of chess and two variants. (Link.)
August 26, 1998: Klin Zha. Chesslike game played by Klingons from Star Trek on triangular board. (Link.)
August 25, 1998: Vegas Fun Chess. Special chess dice determine what piece to move.
August 24, 1998: Additional prize to win in the contest to design a chess variant on a board with 39 squares: a copy of David Moeser's Neue Chess.
August 24, 1998: Photo's of plastic pocket chess set.
August 24, 1998: Hyperchess. Photo's of hexagonal chess variant from 1971.
August 20, 1998: Sekita. Shareware shogi program. (Link.) Recommended by Steve Evans.
August 20, 1998: Makruk. Thai chess program, written by Chassuna Pin-Ngoen. (Link to zip-file.)
August 20, 1998: Review of Noble Celts (circular chess variant), by Ben Good.
August 20, 1998: New version of Dabbaba.
August 20, 1998: Photo's of chess set from Poland. Wood-cut and painted.
August 19, 1998: Echexs. Hexagonal variant for three or six players.
August 18, 1998: Partner chess. Commercial two and four-player variant on smaller cross-shaped board. (Link.)
August 17, 1998: David L. Brown, White and Black from Brown - A Selection of 168 Diagrams and Chess Related Fluff. Review of a book on chess problems.
August 17, 1998: Cheap chess set. A set I bought for a quarter of a Dutch guilder. With silly variants of chess you can play with the set.
August 17, 1998: Usual and unorthodox chess sets. Growing collecition of photo's of different chess sets.
August 17, 1998: Clay chess set. Photo's of chess set made of clay, with human figures as most pieces.
August 17, 1998: Anti-magnetic chess. Four Anti-Magnetic mate in two move problems.
August 14, 1998: 3d offset chess. Chess variants, invented by Ralph Betza, on non-cubic three dimensional boards.
August 12, 1998: Tschach. German version of Tempete sur l'Echiquier: cards change play. (Link to small description in German.)
August 12, 1998: Photo's of modern Gala set.
August 11, 1998: News item: Announcement of the 1st International Losing Chess meeting.
August 11, 1998: Symmetric Sissa: Mate in two . A problem from an actual game of Symmetric Sissa.
August 11, 1998: New version of Detective Chess, PC chess puzzle program.
August 11, 1998: Chess Condal. Chess font, based on diagrams from Spanish chess books, by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
August 11, 1998: Quest-Chess. Players make 10 moves per turn but opponents get chance to react on checks and taking of pieces in between. Variant based on board game Conquest®.
August 10, 1998: DemiChess revisited. Updated information on DemiChess. Variant where pieces have about half the strength as they have in orthodox chess.
August 10, 1998: Comprehensive Bughouse Chess. Website with excerpts from book on Bughouse Chess. (Link.)
August 10, 1998: The Mushroom. A new fairy chess piece by Ralph Betza.
August 10, 1998: 4x16 Race Chess Revisited. New version of race chess on circular 4 by 16 board.