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Shatranj and The Exotic World of Chess Variants

Submitted by LoneWolfEburg on Mon Jul 7, 2008 6:32am.

I have a confession to make - I am a bit of a sucker for exotic stuff. Perhaps that's why I have a weakness for chess variants, a thing which Proper Good Chess Players (tm) should scorn at.  I try them not because I am tired of chess, (ho... Read more »

A funny chekmate

Submitted by LoneWolfEburg on Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:26am.

Here's a mildly interesting checkmate which occured in one of my LiveChess battles. The moral is - never assume that your king is in safety in the early endgame just because the Queens are traded off!  (Althrough admittedly, White is los... Read more »