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title: "Chess Variants & Games Paperback – December 1, 2011"
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# Chess Variants & Games Paperback – December 1, 2011

**Brand:** a v murali
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- **What is this?** Chess Variants & Games Paperback – December 1, 2011 by a v murali
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## Customer Reviews

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    I wish I could get my $10 back.
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 16, 2017*

I got this for my kindle because I love perusing the chessvariants wiki online and thought this would be similar.  Instead it is a collection of the author's inventions, most of which are on really strange boards using geometries that seem entirely impractical for actual play, or are crossovers between chess and field games, or chess and crossword puzzles. (I didn't see any fairy chess examples, though I admit that after the first couple of chapters I just skimmed.) As far as I could tell, none of them had been tested in actual gameplay.  It seemed more like the author noodling around seeing how strange he could be.Of course tastes differ, and there are almost certainly people who would read about playing chess on a fractal board or one constructed of lissajou curves and think "That sounds awesome!", but I'm not one of them.  And I wasn't scared off by the math; I'm a math professor.  It just seemed that the games were more an exercise in invention than anything anyone would actually want to play.EDIT: After reading some more I raised my rating from one star to three.  He does have some interesting ideas about movement rules that are a bit more like what I was expecting.  I liked the one where if you made a capture you could continue your move if the piece could make another capture, like multiple jumps in checkers.  But I still didn't see any evidence that any of this had actually been tested. He kept introducing variants with the phrase "How would it be if...?" It was like he was throwing stuff at the wall to see if anything would stick.

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    Deep and maybe a little too deep.
  

*by C***5 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2014*

Alot of the variants featured with different shaped boards are okay, but you'd have to make all these different shaped boards yourself. The others on regular 8X8 boards are good but some of the explanations on rules and how to play are not always clear or easy to understand. Not bad though if you don't want to buy Pritchard's Encylo of Variants whic here at Amazon is $300+ for a used copy!

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    CHESS VARIANTS & GAMES
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2012*

very interesting : very much curious variants and mathematic positionnals variants.But it is necesssarly to be an expert mathematician:)

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