What was new in January 1999?

• Week of January 24 - January 30, 1999:
  • Reflex chess. Force your opponent to mate you. By David Howe, partly based on email of Carlos Cetina.
  • Cavewars CSIPGS Chess. Three dimensional chess variant based on Cavewars game. By Ralph Betza.
  • New webpage with information how to give feedback. Email addresses and a few FAQs. By David Howe and Hans Bodlaender.
  • File for Zillions of Games. If you have the Zillions of Games program, with this additional downloadable files, you can play the following game:
    • Chu Shogi. (Link.)
  • Kingchess. Players may drop groups of unplaced pieces instead of moving. By Adonin Yuri.
  • Doubles Chess can be played online. Short news item.
  • Dragonchess games. Sample games of Dragonchess, by David Lichtenstein.
• Week of January 17 - January 24, 1999, second update:
  • Unreliable Delivery Chess, or Delay chess. Pieces may get delayed before the arrive at their destinations. By Ralph Betza and David Howe.
  • Chess: 3d. Three dimensional chess variant of Marius Soska. (Link.)
• Week of January 17 - January 24, 1999:
  • Four years of Chess Variant Pages!
  • New piece for the Piececlopedia:
    • Antelope. (3,4)-jumper. By Ben Good.
    • Contragrasshopper. Moves as queen but must always jump first. By Ben Good.
    • Flamingo. (1,6)-jumper. By Ben Good.
    • Mao. Moves as knight but cannot jump. By Ben Good.
    • Rose. Can make consecutive knightmoves in a circle. By Ben Good.
    • Ubi-Ubi. Can make arbitrary many knightmoves in one turn. By Ben Good.
  • Non-Prise Chess. Queens, rooks, knights, and bishops cannot take each other. By Bruce Zimov.
  • Torste n Linss' Chess Problem page. (Link.)
  • K. Scanlon's variant on Grand Chess. By Kevin Scanlon.
  • Files for Zillions of Games. If you have the Zillions of Games program, with these additional downloadable files, you can play the following games:
    • Flip Chess. Game of John William Brown; second place `38-contest' 1998. Zrf-file by Hans Bodlaender.
    • Eight Stones Chess. Game of Jim Aikin. Submission to the `large chess variant design contest. Zrf-file by David Howe.
• Week of January 10 - January 16, 1999:
  • Three participants so far in the Tournament to play the variants on 39 squares. Sign up too, and have fun and win a prize!
  • Xhess. A large but simple chess variant. By David Howe.
  • Zillions file for Xhess. With the Zillions program and this file, your PC plays Xhess against you. By David Howe.
  • Chesseract. Four dimensional chess variant. Submission to the contest to design a large chess variant. By Jim Aikin.
  • Eight Stones Chess. On an 8 by 9 board with eight neutral stones. Submission to the contest to design a large chess variant. By Jim Aikin.
  • Zebra, Dragon, Windmill, and Archbishop. New pieces for the piececlopedia. By Ben Good.
  • Main index file of the contest to design a large chess variant. By David Howe.
  • Information on Strategems, chess problem journal, by Ben Good.
• Week of January 3 - January 9, 1999:
  • Tim Krabbe's WWW page on his experiences with Makruk. Tim Krabbe is a Dutch chess player and journalist. (Link.)
  • Addition ideas to play Surprise Chess.
  • Four Player Shogi. Variant of Shogi for four players.
  • Five new files for Zillions of Games:
    • Robber Baron,
    • King and Queen,
    • Cycle Chess,
    • Combination Chess (simplified variant) and
    • Heaven.
  • Contest to design a large chess variant. A new contest to design chess variants and win, this time for large variants.
  • Joao Pedro Neto's Chess Variants website. (Link.)
  • Over 5 millions hits in total to this website! More than 300000 files delivered in December 1998.

• Index to older `whatsnew' files.