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unusual facts about chess variant



Djambi

Djambi (also described as "Machiavelli's chessboard") is a board game and a chess variant for four players, invented by Jean Anesto in 1975.

Hans L. Bodlaender

Bodlaender has also written extensively about chess variants and invented Bodlaender's dice-rolling method for randomly choosing the initial piece setup in Chess960.


see also

Arity

These words are often used to describe anything related to that number (e.g., undenary chess is a chess variant with an 11×11 board, or the Millenary Petition of 1603).

Capablanca chess

In 1617, Pietro Carrera published a book Il Gioco degli Scacchi, which contained a description of a chess variant played on 8×10 board.

Kung-Fu Chess

This reference of fighting between rival pieces was influenced by the chess-variant video game Archon.