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ActivatorTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[Activator]] {{{ 1 Activator A game for the piecepack and piecepack . . . lines of orthogonally adjacent squares (as in chess) Orthogonal: two orthogonal squares share a side . . .
8K - last updated 2010-03-23 17:54 UTC by EricWald

AlienCityWithJustPiecepack
I was recently musing on whether it would be possible to play AlienCity with just piecepack (that is, . . . reality, among other ways and places. Like Chess, it seems the game is so immersive, you can probably . . .
3K - last updated 2018-11-12 05:07 UTC by RonHaleEvans

Blockade
= Blockade = | Players | 2 | | Length | 30-60 minutes | | Equipment Required | one standard piecepack . . . using coins from other suits. Coins move like chess kings, only onto empty spaces, but the blocker . . . (one of each suit) on a turn. Pawns move like chess queens over or onto empty spaces and/or like-suited . . .
4K - last updated 2020-12-28 05:32 UTC by TrevorLDavis

Chaturaji
= Chaturaji (Chaturanga for four players) = | Players | 4-4 | | Length | 10-180 minutes | | Equipment . . . four players aka Choupat is an old four-person chess variant. The diceless version is playable with . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturaji * Chess Variants (non-free): http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturang4.html . . . == License == There are many Chaturaji . . .
3K - last updated 2022-07-30 06:52 UTC by TrevorLDavis

CheckersTextVersion
This is a text version of the rules taken from a ebook that is in the public domain. Note that the entire . . . the diagrams. {{{ The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership by Edward . . . Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership Author: Edward . . . ASCII *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHESS AND CHECKERS *** * = black single piece o = white . . . played on the 32 black or white squares of the Chess board by two opponents, each of whom has twelve . . .
6K - last updated 2010-03-22 21:18 UTC by EricWald

Chess
= Playing Chess with a Piecepack and 88 Cents or Less = |Players | 2 | |Length | 30-180 minutes | |Equipment . . . domain | This page describes how to create a Chess set from a piecepack and 88 cents worth of U.S. . . . feel sorry for you. == Instructions == 1. Make a Chess board by creating a 4x4 grid of piecepack tiles, . . . become the Knights (mnemonic: a "2" looks like a Chess Knight). 1. How will the players tell their Rooks, . . . those of their opponents? As in Shogi (Japanese Chess): by the direction they are facing. The pips . . .
5K - last updated 2022-07-27 07:24 UTC by TrevorLDavis

Chess 2fTextVersion
#REDIRECT [[ChessTextVersion]] . . .
1K - last updated 2010-03-22 21:18 UTC by EricWald

ChessTextVersion
This is a version of the rules taken from a ebook that is in the public domain. Note that entire text . . . diragrams. {{{ The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership by Edward . . . Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership Author: Edward . . . ASCII *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHESS AND CHECKERS *** Key for the Diagrams R = Rook . . . tell by sight which pieces in the ASCII chess diagrams are black and which are white. PART . . .
26K - last updated 2010-03-22 21:18 UTC by EricWald

ClarkRodeffer
= Clark D. Rodeffer = |E-mail|[[MailTo(clark AT SPAMFREE redheifergames DOT com)]]| |Web Site|[http://www.redheifergames.com . . . Amy's Artifacts] [http://www.chessexpress.com/tourney.htm Ann Arbor Chess Club] . . . Cheese Weasel Logistics] [http://www.chessvariants.org Chess Variants] [http://www.chessex.com . . . Chessex] [http://www.chessmate.com ChessMate] [http://www.chitag.com . . .
31K - last updated 2020-12-28 06:03 UTC by TrevorLDavis

15 Comments on DualPiecepacks
### 15 Comments. ### Trevor, you asked for feedback in your Reddit post. In general, I think your work . . . could be used to reduce abstraction in chess (i.e. each sides pieces could be distinguished . . . playing Memory or some kind of variant of Jungle Chess plus the animal emoji are quite cute). Some Chinese . . . the piecepack in China i.e. traditional Japanese chess pieces and Chinese chess pieces all denote rank . . .
12K - last updated 2020-01-30 14:52 UTC by TrevorLDavis

1 Comment on FourFieldKono
### 1 Comment. ### TrevorLDavis, this is a really wonderful animated and annotated illustration, unlike . . . animated illustration of Ultima pieces on the Chess Variant Pages. I hope you continue adding more . . .
1K - last updated 2022-10-07 03:40 UTC by RonHaleEvans

1 Comment on Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page
### 1 Comment. ### I make it that we have (or are expecting) seven entries so far: Tracer, an Alquerque . . . variant, Burbuja, Chess 720, Wondergolf, Tapas, and Zeppelinopolis (the . . .
1K - last updated 2020-12-16 00:59 UTC by RonHaleEvans

17 Comments on Japan
### 17 Comments. ### Looks good. Comments from the top: * Source of title? A bit obscure. * I have two . . . were played. I have used rubber bands on chess pieces to distinguish them in chess variants . . .
8K - last updated 2018-12-03 19:03 UTC by TrevorLDavis

14 Comments on piecepackr
### 14 Comments. ### If an announcement of a cool new software feature ("Can now make diagrams!") merits . . . the starting board with the mirrored 6-suited chess-ranked piecepacks). There is currently also an . . .
8K - last updated 2025-04-10 15:25 UTC by TrevorLDavis

8 Comments on Proximity
### 8 Comments. ### Hey, has anyone out there played this before? I get the feeling the Games On Our . . . (as in for example George Marino's "[http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/timeline.html Timeline]") . . .
6K - last updated 2020-02-03 12:09 UTC by selfthinker

22 Comments on RelicensedGames
### 22 Comments. ### I don't know the structure of the wiki very well. Can someone please create a link . . . the rules. The only game I haven't changed is [[Chess]]. As it is/was in the Public Domain, licensing . . . 2019-07-14 12:01 UTC ---- Please keep Chess in the public domain. I'll go back and clarify . . .
9K - last updated 2023-04-12 17:27 UTC by 73.225.96.116

12 Comments on StackPack
### 12 Comments. ### I think this is just amazingly cool, Trevor. Can we assume you're going to add customizable . . . young child safety reasons or use it with "nice" chess pieces or checkers. I've also been thinking about . . . to play [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_chess Hexagonal Chess] on a hexagonal board made from . . . falls just one tile short of making a hexagonal chessboard. -- TrevorLDavis 2018-10-29 19:26 UTC ---- . . .
6K - last updated 2020-02-11 20:47 UTC by JamesVipond

1 Comment on SynergiesOfPiecepackComponents
### 1 Comment. ### Another possible synergy: you could use rolls of a dice to determine which coins (or . . . move. Historical examples would be the several chess variants that use dice to determine which pieces . . . to move: # [[Chaturaji]]: http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturang4.html#dice . . . # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice_chess -- TrevorLDavis 2018-07-03 03:58 UTC . . .
1K - last updated 2018-07-03 03:58 UTC by TrevorLDavis

29 Comments on TrevorLDavis
### 29 Comments. ### Good work! -- Jessica_Eccles 2016-08-30 08:54 UTC ---- It seems to me Minishogi . . . piecepack. What do you think? https://www.chessvariants.com/shogivariants.dir/minishog.html -- . . . go stones, checkers, dominoes, (crude PnP style) chess pieces, (French Tarot) playing cards, and meeples). . . .
19K - last updated 2025-04-29 23:20 UTC by TrevorLDavis

11 Comments on TrevorLDavisPBW
### 11 Comments. ### Came looking for a game and found that we had already started one -- Ultima. But . . . of U. The board is identical to [[https://www.chessvariants.com/difftaking.dir/hostage.html Hostage . . . Chess]], so you could probably add the extra board . . . top up at x5". {{{:}}} is taken from (Russian) chess notation (and can sort of be viewed as a twisted . . . not sufficient. 3. OK, I'll use the notation at chessvariants.org. 4. I didn't know until today you . . .
8K - last updated 2020-03-09 04:37 UTC by RonHaleEvans

ConspiracyTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[Conspiracy]] {{{ C o n s p i r a c y Version 2.1.1 Version Date . . . with the ease that you or I move pawns on a chessboard. And all of them share the same goal: control . . .
52K - last updated 2010-03-23 17:56 UTC by EricWald

DualPiecepacks
"Dual piecepacks" are eight piecepack "suits" with the following properties: * The eight **suits** can . . . or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess Bughouse chess]]). * One can play entirely new . . .
4K - last updated 2019-06-07 06:04 UTC by TrevorLDavis

DungeonCrawlTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[DungeonCrawl]] {{{ Dungeon Crawla game for the piecepack(v 0.2b, . . . straight line in any direction (like a queen in chess). A character must stop if it reaches a space . . .
8K - last updated 2010-03-23 17:57 UTC by EricWald

FortuneCookies
* Dice, dice, dice: I must have more dice. * "If you can set the rules, you can win the game." --John . . . in need of detailed surroundings. Add a chessboard, a map of the world, a Lego set, a deck . . .
5K - last updated 2020-12-29 07:09 UTC by TrevorLDavis

Fuji 2dsan 2fSolutionNotation
The solution always starts with the coin layout and the starting positions of the four priests. Next . . . notation for the pawns would be similar to chess notation where one uses numbers to indicate number . . .
2K - last updated 2021-05-11 06:03 UTC by TrevorLDavis

GenericAbstracts
= Generic Abstract Games that are Compatible with the Piecepack = When compiling the TaxonomyOfPiecepackGames, . . . Dao] * [http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/dawsonchess.htm Dawson's Chess] * [http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/dodgem.htm . . .
5K - last updated 2022-02-20 03:46 UTC by TrevorLDavis

GoodPortsmanship
= Good Portsmanship = **Contest theme:** //Good Portsmanship.// In the spirit of free and open source . . . dependence on book openings with Fischer Random Chess. Nor is that the only improvement to the game; . . .
15K - last updated 2010-03-23 16:38 UTC by EricWald

GroupProjects
= The Group Projects Contest = You can read the relevant information for the sixth of the Piecepack Game . . . using coins from other suits. Coins move like chess kings, only onto empty spaces, but the blocker . . . (one of each suit) on a turn. Pawns move like chess queens over or onto empty spaces and/or like-suited . . . of the game. A shaman can move over land like a chess queen (unimpeded by friendly pieces), magically . . . spirit movement. Warriors move over land like a chess rook (again, unimpeded by friendly pieces). Both . . .
77K - last updated 2010-03-23 15:32 UTC by EricWald

IronPiecepackDesignerContest
= Piecepack Contest #9: The Iron Piecepack Designer **CURRENTLY BEING JUDGED** = **UPDATE** Episode 2 . . . pyramids, Icehouse pieces, Pyramid Arcade, cloth chessboard, double 6 dominoes, glass beads/stones, . . .
18K - last updated 2023-07-10 19:22 UTC by TrevorLDavis

KnightsTourReduxTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[KnightsTourRedux]] {{{ Knight’s Tour Redux A game for the piecepack . . . turns.1. Move pawn.a. Pawns move as knights in chess. (Move two tiles in one direction, then onetile . . .
2K - last updated 2010-03-23 18:00 UTC by EricWald

LabRatsTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[LabRats]] = Lab Rats = A Solitary Confinement game for the piecepack . . . Your rat moves orthogonally like a rook in chess. You may move it the number of spaces shown on . . .
4K - last updated 2020-08-21 06:22 UTC by TrevorLDavis

LocalSpellingWords
py txt url Biggar mins pdf piecepack Maximus doc Bocce Croquet Froggy Ppolf Triactor dominoes Anime Boardgaming . . . Yep playtest Bartel pre wasn grasshopper app chessboard Cormack doesn Lego Mc Mundschau playtesters . . .
3K - last updated 2009-06-01 03:00 UTC by 192.168.1.1

LudicSynergy
= The Ludic Synergy Contest = You can read the relevant information for the second of the Piecepack Game . . . that can be melded with a piecepack set include chess pieces and chessboards, polyhedral dice, alphabet . . . Hex****Games game system * Colvmn game * Mutant Chess 2. Two sets of piecepack pyramids, handmade by . . . must be either in the public domain, like a chess set, or easily obtained, such as an Icehouse . . .
13K - last updated 2020-12-29 05:56 UTC by TrevorLDavis

MakingDiagrams
A few diagrams can go a long way to understanding how to play a [[Games|piecepack game]]. There are many . . . font]]. Here is an example ASCII chess diagram: {{{ +-----+ 8 | #R | #Kt| #B | #Q | . . .
6K - last updated 2023-11-05 00:35 UTC by JamesVipond

MartianTreasureHuntTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[MartianTreasureHunt]] {{{ Martian Treasure Hunt A game for the . . . that piece will move. The piece moves like thechess piece indicated. Die Roll Piece Moves Like Null . . . player's piece or any pyramid it lands on as inchess.1. Only five of any player’s pieces can be captured, . . .
3K - last updated 2010-03-23 18:01 UTC by EricWald

Mazegarden
| Players | 2-4 | | Length | 30 minutes | | Equipment Required | two piecepack sets | | Designer | Ferdinand . . . the same function (making a piece move like a chess king), turn them face down. Then use color/suit . . . of value to determine movement: Arms move like chess knights. Moons move like bishops. Crowns move . . .
1K - last updated 2022-12-07 18:41 UTC by TrevorLDavis

MissingInAction
No, this page **isn't** about piecepack games that are //slow// or //boring// -- some of these games . . . CP Face made chess/french-suited DualPiecepacks: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2378211/homemade-piecepack-seeking-suggestions . . .
7K - last updated 2023-07-21 14:13 UTC by TrevorLDavis

PiecepackDodgemTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[PiecepackDodgem]] {{{ Piecepack Dodg’em Adapted for the piecepack . . . can be defined in alpha-numeric fashion as in Chess, with the rows numbered 1-6 (bottom to top) and . . .
2K - last updated 2010-03-23 18:03 UTC by EricWald

PiecepackExpansions
= Piecepack Expansions = A piecepack can be expanded in many ways. Different designers have * changed . . . PnP piecepacks use non-standard ranks such as chess symbols. * **Mini piecepack** (⚄): half the size . . .
5K - last updated 2020-02-18 01:28 UTC by TrevorLDavis

PiecepackGlossary
[:TOP] = Glossary of piecepack Terms = Note: words in **bold** are defined elsewhere in this glossary. . . . of a theme (like the supposed war theme in ["Chess"]) but that theme is not an integral part of . . . Classic abstract strategy games are ["Chess"], ["Checkers"] and Go. Backgammon is not an . . . Diagonal movement is like that of a bishop in ["Chess"]. See also **orthogonal**. ;diamonds :1) n. . . . board or space; that is, moving like a rook in ["Chess"]. See also **diagonal**. [[#TOP]] [:P] = P = . . .
32K - last updated 2020-08-21 06:22 UTC by TrevorLDavis

piecepackr
[https://github.com/trevorld/piecepackr|piecepackr] is an [https://cran.r-project.org/|R] package designed . . . * Dual Piecepacks * piecepacks for playing chess variants * labels for piecepack pyramids * game . . .
3K - last updated 2019-11-17 23:28 UTC by TrevorLDavis

Playing and playtesting during pandemics
This page is a work in progress. If you have any information on the topics below, please add it, to help . . . and reports to them any hidden information (Chess does not have any hidden information; Poker does). . . .
6K - last updated 2020-09-13 19:21 UTC by RonHaleEvans

RandomGame
* ["Activator"] * AlienCity * ["Baseball"] * ["Berlin"] * BingoBattle * BlackPawnTrucking * BlackThursday . . . * ["Checkers"] * CheminMontagneux * ["Chess"] * ChineseCheckers * ChoosySushi * CityPlanning . . .
2K - last updated 2009-06-01 03:02 UTC by 192.168.1.1

RonHaleEvans
= Ron Hale-Evans = **Email:** rwhe@ludism.org **External home page:** http://ludism.org/tinfoil/HomePage . . . * [[Wormholes]] I also showed how you can play [[Chess]] with a piecepack. == Piecepack miscellanea . . .
1K - last updated 2020-03-02 02:42 UTC by RonHaleEvans

SandBox
[[image/class:https://www.trevorldavis.com/share/piecepack/desfases.gif|Game of Desfases|https://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/Desfases|Animation . . . Animation of "The Immortal Game" between . . . Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky using a chess-themed piecepack ]] Image without caption (specify . . . No caption :-(]] Playing around with also . . . | |Tim Schutz| -- Tim Schutz |Tim Schutz]] . . .
2K - last updated 2023-05-14 14:54 UTC by JacobSP

ScavengerHuntTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[ScavengerHunt]] {{{ Scavenger Hunt A Changing Landscapes game . . . the player's pawn on the board like a rook in chess in any direction the player wishes. If the pawn . . .
5K - last updated 2010-03-23 18:04 UTC by EricWald

ShamanIsland
= Shaman Island = | Players | 2-4 | | Length | 30 minutes | | Equipment Required | piecepack | | Designer . . . of the game. A shaman can move over land like a chess queen (unimpeded by friendly pieces), magically . . . spirit movement. Warriors move over land like a chess rook (again, unimpeded by friendly pieces). Both . . .
5K - last updated 2020-12-28 08:05 UTC by TrevorLDavis

StackPack
StackPack is short for "stacked piecepacks" and refers to the notion of a bigger piecepack and smaller . . . supercoins (as pawns) and subtiles (as the other chess pieces) to play several varieties of [[Chess]] . . . crazy you'll actually have enough pieces to play chess variants like [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172877/meta-chess . . . Meta Chess]. # The 24 supercoins, subcoins, and subtiles . . . quarters which is the most common tournament chessboard size (5" supertile would lead to 2 1/2" . . .
7K - last updated 2022-05-30 19:47 UTC by TrevorLDavis

SteampunkPiecepack
== Steampunk Piecepack == === A kind of manifesto === I've had a lot of people tell me they outright . . . design environment. Playing cards, dominoes, and chess set (see Arimaa for an ideal example of chess-set-as-game-system) . . . suits in the DualPiecepacks (as well as the new chess-ranked piecepacks) as well as the other suits . . . share the Martian theme with games like Martian Chess. And for the love of all that is lazy, I shouldn't . . .
5K - last updated 2018-04-19 20:08 UTC by RonHaleEvans

TelicTextVersion
This is an AutoGeneratedTextVersion of [[Telic]] = Telec = A 2-Player Abstract Race Game Using A Piecepack . . . table with the board placed between them (as in Chess, for example). The board is five tiles deep and . . .
9K - last updated 2010-03-23 18:06 UTC by EricWald

TheInCrowd
= The In Crowd = | Players | 2 | | Length | 40 minutes | | Equipment Required | one standard piecepack . . . we'd already only be playing the perfect games - Chess, Bridge and Monopoly. :o) --IainCheyne ---- Well, . . . about what constitutes a good game! How could Chess or Bridge ever compare to the likes of Candy . . .
11K - last updated 2020-12-29 07:34 UTC by TrevorLDavis

Tim Schutz
= Tim Schutz = A tall indie game designer who lives in the Pacific Northwest and takes care of critters . . . games and expansions: * CastleCroquetnole * [[Chess]] * CrocodileHop * IceFloe * LiquidCrystals * . . .
1K - last updated 2021-05-07 03:41 UTC by TrevorLDavis

TrevorLDavis
I've named and written articles about the following PiecepackExpansions: * [[DualPiecepacks]] * [[StackPack]] . . . designers: * [[Alquerque]] * [[Checkers]] * [[Chess]] * SpeedyTowers Make a comment on TrevorLDavisPBW . . .
2K - last updated 2023-07-11 23:19 UTC by TrevorLDavis

TrevorLDavisPBW
This page is to record the PlayByWiki games hosted by TrevorLDavis. Let me know in the comments if there . . . Breakthrough] * [[Chess]] * [http://www.ludism.org/scwiki/LinesOfActionRules . . . in playing namely AlienCity, [https://www.chessvariants.com/other.dir/ultima.html Ultima], and . . .
4K - last updated 2020-03-06 22:48 UTC by TrevorLDavis

VassalModule
== Preface == **A new version of the piecepack module and a TON of new extensions has been released! . . . Top//, //Table Top (No Grid)//, and 2 different chess boards. Future extensions may add additional . . . cards [Done] {OK} * Dominoes [Done] {OK} * chess pieces [Done] {OK} * fairy chess pieces [Done] . . . (well sorta.. because 5 colours of chess pieces have been created and all of them can . . . labels, this should meet all of your fairy chess needs, let me know if you want to see something . . .
16K - last updated 2013-06-25 02:11 UTC by nupanick

Where No One Has Gamed Before
== Community Piecepack Competition 8: Where No One Has Gamed Before == === Winners === [[Where No One . . . game as novel. Consider Robert Abbott’s 1962 “chess variant” [[http://www.chessvariants.com/other.dir/ultima.html . . . differently and capturing the same way (as in Chess), every piece moves in more or less the same . . . differently. In fact, although it resembles Chess superficially, it’s very unlike Chess – or most . . . other chess variants. Game entries do not need to be anonymous, . . .
6K - last updated 2018-10-09 04:00 UTC by RonHaleEvans

Where No One Has Gamed Before Results
This is RonHaleEvans, judge of the eighth community piecepack game design contest, [[Where No One Has . . . * Dual Piecepacks * piecepacks for playing chess variants * labels for piecepack pyramids * game . . .
23K - last updated 2020-12-26 07:41 UTC by TrevorLDavis

Xiangqi
| Players | 2-2 | | Length | 10-180 minutes | | Equipment Required | one standard piecepack | | Designer . . . | == Description Xiangqi (also called Chinese chess) is a popular board game in Chinese communities . . . and is a member of the chess family of games. Like chess it is possible to . . . * The Chess Variants Pages: https://www.chessvariants.com/xiangqi.html . . .
5K - last updated 2022-02-09 04:52 UTC by TrevorLDavis

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