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Chess Variant DIY projects - post them!
By: ebinola Date: January 25, 2018, 4:25 pm
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It's one thing to buy bigger boards and extra pieces, but to me,
making it yourself brings a greater satisfaction. I'd like to
dedicate this thread to any personal projects you'd like to
share. High-quality, low-quality, prototypes - anything goes.
I have a 10x8 plywood board that I used to create a set for my
variant, fool's chess, plus two fool pieces. I don't have
pictures of them right now, but I will update the OP with them
ASAP.
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Re: Chess Variant DIY projects - post them!
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: January 25, 2018, 6:29 pm
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Amazing idea! I'll be sure to post my handmade sets ASAP!
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Re: Chess Variant DIY projects - post them!
By: GothicChessInventor Date: January 25, 2018, 7:09 pm
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[quote author=ebinola link=topic=47.msg241#msg241
date=1516919116]
It's one thing to buy bigger boards and extra pieces, but to me,
making it yourself brings a greater satisfaction. I'd like to
dedicate this thread to any personal projects you'd like to
share. High-quality, low-quality, prototypes - anything goes.
[/quote]
Well here is how I started, back in 1998.
[attachimg=1]
Known as the "frying pan set" because I melted a Knight to a
Rook in a frying pan, this is how I made my first 10x8 set.
Didn't even call it Gothic Chess right away (only later, when I
printed the board at Kinko's Copies). I was primarily looking
for opponents to play Capablanca's Chess with, mostly at the
Franklin-Mercantile Chess Club in Philadelphia and the
Doylestown Chess Club in Doylestown, PA.
The Archbishop was a Bishop with 2 red checkers glued to the
base (for black) and 2 white checkers glued to the base (for
white). Shown here are the Chancellors, a black "Archbishop,"
and a regular black Bishop.
After a while, the Capablanca setup was found to be flawed, so
the hunt was on for the better 10x8 setup. And then later came
Gothic Chess, much more awesome pieces, boards, a program, a
website, and an email from someone in Iceland saying Bobby
Fischer would be willing to play Anatoly Karpov in this new
variant instead of regular chess.
By the way, I still have about 3000 complete sets of pieces (no
boards) that looks exactly as shown below:
[attachimg=2]
10 white pawns
10 black pawns
1 white archbishop
1 black archbishop
1 white chancellor
1 black chancellor
2 white rooks
2 black rooks
2 white knights
2 black knights
2 white bishops
2 black bishops
1 white queen
1 black queen
1 white king
1 black king
If anyone is interested in obtaining a set, let me know. You can
play any 10x8 variant that uses a Chancellor and Archbishop.
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Re: Chess Variant DIY projects - post them!
By: HGMuller Date: January 27, 2018, 1:59 pm
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I once made Staunton Cannons:
[img]
HTML http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/canvet4.JPG[/img]
I also tried to develop pieces to make large Shogi variants more
playable. The problem here is that there are so many piece types
that using 'statue-type' pieces is hardly useful anymore, even
if they are very different ad easily recognized (like all kind
of different animals).You would still have a major job
remembering how each animal moves. And another problem is that
all these pieces promote. So I tried to made the move
recognizable from the representation, and used flat pieces, so
they canbe flipped to show the promoted image:
HTML http://hgm.nubati.net/ChuSet.png
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Re: Chess Variant DIY projects - post them!
By: ebinola Date: January 30, 2018, 5:16 pm
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I return with images.
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HTML https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/0Ry3L7huKD6ZGuG9gqSZP6cbgEwyxuPGkkgO7BcvZRoGpk4vesUEOQwnPtvJzW79BoV2r0AjZo0cUCYXrH_H=w1877-h917-rw[/img][/spoiler]
I'm fortunate enough to have a friend who has a 3D printer, so
we're quite self-sufficient when it comes to variants with any
extra pieces.
Last year we printed an entire set to play Chess 2: The Sequel
OTB and a specialised shogi set.
This guy carved a set from wax, I would love to try that myself:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGM81U0zb0
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Re: Chess Variant DIY projects - post them!
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: March 22, 2018, 5:03 pm
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Post your projects people! :)
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Re: Chess Variant DIY projects - post them!
By: evert823 Date: May 21, 2018, 5:22 am
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HTML https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/ideas-on-creating-very-large-boards-physically
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Re: Chess Variant DIY projects - post them!
By: John_Lewis Date: May 22, 2018, 10:23 am
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That Shogi variant looks awesome!
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