Me too Caissus !

I don't know about others, but I personally am not that much concerned about names. What matters to me is the game itself. Like in my language, SHATRANJ is the equivalant for chess while in English shatranj is agame quite different from chess!

Caissus & bwildman: OK! yes, Caissus's English is quite good while I can't speak even one word in German. But I say it again, the pictures were quite nice.

Caissus: I did enjoy the photos of course :-)

Caissus: Errr, does that link have an English version?

Walter Montego: I didn't know that Mr. Montego. Thanks for the information.

Walter Montego: LOL @ Walter. I agree too.

Pafl: that's not possible to play! lol!
we'll be having all our games finished in 3 moves!

Caissus: I didn't know fencer had said such a thing. In any case, I still think cylinder dark chess or maybe dark cylinder chess will be a very exciting variant. Just an idea!

Hiyya all. I think one very interesting addition to the site can be Darrk Cylinder chess.

I can already see how fast and challenging the games can be.

What do others think?

Thanks. I'll see what I can do

Oh, I see. Do you have any suggestions how we can possibly balance the starting position?

Hey all. Here's a new type of chess:

The white player starts the game with the usual set of pieces.

Black, starts the game with a king, four queens and four pawns.

The king is located on its usual place at E8.
The queens are located at G8, F7, D7 and C8.
The pawns are on each queen. Ergo, we'll have the pawns at G7, F6, D6 and C7.

I would appreciate it if anyone could discuss the chances of both players. I think the players have almost the same chances of winning but the black player is a little bit more powerful if he/she can best benefit from the pieces.

Thanks to all