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  Progressive chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Progressive chess is a chess variant in which players, rather than just making one move per turn, play progressively longer series of moves.
Progressive chess can be combined with other variants; for example, when circe is played as a game, it is usually progressively.
Progressive chess is considered particularly apt for playing correspondence chess using mail or some other slow medium, because of the relatively small number of moves in a typical game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_chess   (543 words)

  
 Progressive chess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Progressive chess is a chess variant in which players rather than just one move per turn play progressively longer of moves.
Progressive chess can be combined with other for example when circe is played as a game it usually progressively.
Progressive chess is considered particularly apt for correspondence chess using mail or some other slow medium because the relatively small number of moves in typical game.
www.freeglossary.com /Progressive_Chess   (899 words)

  
 Chess variant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fischer Random Chess (or Chess960): the placement of the pieces on the 1st and 8th rank is randomized.
Grid chess: the board is overlaid with a grid of lines; for a move to be legal, it must cross at least one of these lines.
The popularity of these chess variants may be limited to their respective places of origin (as is largely the case for shogi), or worldwide, as is the case for xiangqi which is played by overseas Chinese everywhere.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chess_variant   (1685 words)

  
 Chess variant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A chess variant is any (A contest with rules to determine a winner) game derived from or related to (A game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king) chess.
King's Corner chess: like (Click link for more info and facts about Fischer Random Chess) Fischer Random Chess, the placement of the pieces on the 1st and 8th row are randomized, but with the king in the right hand corner.
The popularity of these chess variants may be limited to their respective places of origin (as is largely the case for shogi), or worldwide, as is the case for xiangqi which is played by (Click link for more info and facts about overseas Chinese) overseas Chinese everywhere.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chess_variant.htm   (2067 words)

  
 Circe chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Circe chess (or just circe) is a chess variant in which captured pieces are reborn on their starting positions as soon as they are captured, based on the following rules:
For instance, a white pawn captured on b4 is reborn on b2; a fl knight captured on f6 is reborn on b8; a fl rook captured on the same square is reborn on h8.
Circe is rarely played as a variant game (when it is, it is usually combined with progressive chess), but very often employed in composed chess problems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Circe_chess   (636 words)

  
 A Glossary of Basic Chess Variant Terms
[e.g.: The 3x3-square citadels of Korean chess or the one-square citadels of Tamerlane chess.]
In English Progressive Chess, a single iteration of the democratic system for moving pieces, whereby every mobile piece moves once before it can move a 2nd time; every mobile piece moves twice before it can move a 3rd time; and so on.
Chess played on a board that is rolled into a cylinder, allowing either its two outer ranks or its two outer files to be joined.
www.chessvariants.com /misc.dir/coreglossary.html   (3477 words)

  
 Progressive Chess; Kucinich and Sharpton play Key Roles in the Game
A very interesting chess match is developing at the progressive edge of the Democratic Party, far more interesting from a strategic standpoint than debating the minor differences between the platforms of the two Johns.
When the progressive candidates were given the floor and not merely asked why in the world they were still in the race, they gave refreshing, insightful, bold, and even funny answers.
Behavior like his is wedge behavior: by disrespecting the progressive candidates he drives a wedge between the progressive base and the rest of the party.
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 Chess puzzles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The goal of the game is either to attain first the 8th row for white, and the 1st row for fl, with a bishop, or to take the opposite bishop with a pawn.
The rules are the same as in normal chess, except that the bishops cannot take each other (they can take pawns and pawns can take them), and the pawns do not promote but just stay pawns when reaching their respective far end row.
The rules are almost the same as in normal chess, but with an extra rule which adds strategic elements to it.
www.geocities.com /ifaybish/puzzles.html   (506 words)

  
 Variant Chess Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Chess in Disguise All or some of the pieces are disguised as draughtsmen, whose identities are revealed when captured or must be deduced in the course of the game by their moves or checks.
Fairy Chess comprises the study of all such elements, taken in arbitrary groups at will.” The current tendency is to restrict this term to apply to chess with unorthodox pieces and to use 'Variant', 'Heterodox', 'Unorthodox' or 'Generalised' chess for the wider subject.
Progressive chess under scotch rules; not to be confused with Scottish chess, which is orthodox chess played in Scotland.
www.bcvs.ukf.net /gvcg.htm   (6267 words)

  
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 Progressive chess Play for Real or Just for Fun.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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In an Amsterdam chess cafe I used to play a game which we called "Can I?" and which is better known as Kriegspiel, where the players see only their own pieces and not the opponent's.
Alcoholic Chess, where the pieces are bottles that have to be drunk by the player who captures them, has little to offer intellectually and is only suitable for festive evenings.
A quite different case is Progressive Chess, where white starts with one move, fl replies with two, white plays three, fl four and so on.
www.chesscafe.com /text/hans01.txt   (840 words)

  
 Chess Variants / Bughouse & Other Chess Variants [Chessopolis > Chess Links]
Cardinal Super Chess - Chess on an 10x10 board with the addition of a new type of piece, the "Cardinal".
Power Chess - Interesting idea: chess with one half of the board shifted one square over, creating two extra triangular squares on the middle edges.
Progressive Chess - A thorough online guide to Progressive Chess, with each side making a progressively greater number of moves on each turn.
www.chessopolis.com /variants.htm   (613 words)

  
 Recognized Chess Variant: Progressive Chess
If I would have to choose the chess variant of the 20th century, I probably would choose Progressive Chess.
Progressive chess is played in a number of somewhat different fashions, and the idea is also used in combination with other chess variants.
Progressive chess is widely played, e.g., in AISE, and NOST.
www.chessvariants.com /r/progressive.html   (120 words)

  
 Billiards progressive chess
Progressive Chess, with the difference that the game is played on a `billiard chessboard'.
Billiards progressive chess is played in email tournaments, organized by AISE.
All the rules of Italian progressive chess apply, but queens and bishops have additional movement possibilities: Queens and Bishops can bounce against the border in their movement.
www.chessvariants.com /multimove.dir/bilprog.html   (400 words)

  
 Free Chess Book, Chess books, Chess book, chess Strategies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This book does touch upon all key areas of chess to help you understand and create solid foundation in your progressive chess gaining experience by building strong foundational chess knowledge the correct way.
Thanks you bluegem for a chess book that finally works for me. I have been playing chess now on yahoo for over 2 years.
The free book is called CHESS SURVEY done with over 2000 chess players of both beginners Club players and pro players asking them each the same questions to find what the differences are between them.
www.island.net /~bluegem/chess-book/chess-books.htm   (777 words)

  
 Progressive Chess
Progressive Chess is perhaps the most widely played of all variants.
Although the Progressive Chess concept can be applied to almost any variant, the game is typically played as a variant of orthodox chess with orthodox board and pieces.
Scottish Chess is the oldest of all progressive chess variants, probably originating in Great Britain (or possibly Scotland) just before World War II.
www.chessvariants.org /multimove.dir/progressive.html   (1285 words)

  
 Timo's Progressive Chess Page
There are good and not so good openings in progressive chess, of course, but you or your opponent are less likely to know them thoroughly.
Protection in progressive chess does not, mainly, mean strong pieces surrounding the King, on the contrary, space is needed so that chances for an escape are maximised.
Bc4 Qf3 Bxf7++ One must remember that many participants of the tournament were playing progressive chess for the first time in their life.
www.cis.hut.fi /~tho/chess.html   (1647 words)

  
 Chess Variant Applets
Scotch Progressive Chess, with an extra move per turn for each time your side has checked the opponent.
Progressive Circe chess, units returning as in the standard non-progressive game, waiting if necessary until the square becomes open.
Hero Chess II The queen is replaced by the hero.
www.pathguy.com /chess/ChessVar.htm   (2779 words)

  
 Chess Clocks with cart
With a sturdy aluminum casing, this chess clock is highly sought after and difficult to find.
Not a fancy looking clock by any means, but this clock is loaded with features and is constructed of a heavy metal case with an enamel finish making this a durable clock that will last for many years.
Progressive - tournament style multiple period (2 to 4) time controls with last control repeating.
www.chess4less.com /2-clocks.htm   (480 words)

  
 MindZine - Chess Variants
A superb collection of Java applets which play different chess variants can be found on this Chess Variant Applets page of Ed Friedlander.
Progressive Chess is the variant where White begins the game with one move, then Black plays two moves, then White plays three and so on.
Fans of Hexagonal Chess, the chess variant invented by Wladyslaw Glinski in the 1930s, will be pleased to know that the game is still being played actively in Eastern Europe.
www.msoworld.com /mindzine/news/chess/chessvari.html   (1448 words)

  
 Reb's Chess Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While there were several correspondence chess organizations that I was involved in, the Knights of the Square Table (NOST) was my favorite.
Basically chess variation games follow most standard rules of chess with a few minor rule or piece changes.
In it a starting position is shown with a stipulation that fl plays a series of moves without reply, and then white plays one move to checkmate fl.
www.rebnora.com /chess/Chess.htm   (351 words)

  
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 Chronos
Chess Progressive Mode II (CH-P2) is like CH-P1, but with only three time controls.
Chess Progressive Mode III is the same as CH-P1, but designed for blitz play under ten minutes.
There are five additional progressive modes; each with a slight variation on the progressive theme.
members.bigvalley.net /sarafian/chronos.html   (1535 words)

  
 Progressive Orthodox Chess
Progressive Orthodox Chess (POC) was designed to achieve two goals: 1) to preserve the essential "progressive" idea as much as possible;
Games tend to be very short, even shorter than progressive chess, as one can make the opponent king come up to the danger zone, by about move series 5 or 6.
Queens are deadly of course, as at progressive chess, and usually should come off as soon as possible.
www.di.fc.ul.pt /~jpn/cv/poc.htm   (3127 words)

  
 Variations on a theme | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If you're bored with the kind of chess grandpappy taught you, know there are well over 1,000 other ways to do it.
I was thinking about variations on chess just the other day...after my truck-driving, drummer, pot-head friend beat me for the 9th time in a row.
My problem with learning chess is always that with the e4, d5 stuff (as with the old notation, of course), I can visualize what's happening for the first three moves or so without a board, and then I'm lost.
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 Winning Progressive chess Player - Stratey News and Tips for winning Progressive chess Fans.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 The Chess Learning Center - Digital Chess Clock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Chess clocks are not absolutely essential for beginning chess players.
However, for intermediate and serious chess students a digital chess clock should be standard equipment.
Two precision digital clocks, each with large 3/4”, readable displays, keep split-second track of the time each opponent has used on his or her turn.
www.chesslearn.com /supplies/clock.htm   (207 words)

  
 Chess Problem Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The concept of checkmate is clearly related to the capture of the king, but we cannot substitute the rule that capture of the king is the aim of the game since then stalemate would be a win also.
This was the first ever chess problem composed that made use of the new rule.
Retroanalysis The art of deduction from a chess problem position, and any other information given, of possible plays that may have led up to the position, on the assumption that it has been reached from the usual opening position by legal though not necessarily sensible play.
www.bcvs.ukf.net /gvcp.htm   (4394 words)

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