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About this mod
Chess on a really big board is a large chess variant invented by Ralph Betza around 1996. It is played on a 16×16 chessboard with 16 pieces and 16 pawns per player.
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Chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. This variant has been thought to be the largest possible playable variant to extend the abstract battle to really epic levels.
The board is 16x16, the pieces are the usual from Chess with the addition of six new entries: the Buffalo, the Elephant, the Empress, the Princess, the Rose, and the Unicorn.
The Save uses custom models, designed by me, for all pieces and the board. In addition a script underlines the moves and where a piece protects its companions. However, at the moment Castling and En Passant capture moves are not underlined; in addition the script does not verify if a move may be illegal because it would leave the King under attack. Be attentive.
The save also has turns for two players, and four camera positions. With SHIFT-1 to 4 you can easily see the board for White (1, 2) or Black (3, 4).
Wikipedia entry about the game.
★ Personally I see it as a violation of the zugzwang, but the author himself says: "I think that circular pieces should be permitted to use the null-move, that is, to go around the circle and stop where they started." See chessvariants.com.
The board is 16x16, the pieces are the usual from Chess with the addition of six new entries: the Buffalo, the Elephant, the Empress, the Princess, the Rose, and the Unicorn.
- The Buffalo jumps like a Knight, but it can also jump farther.
- The Elephant and the Unicorn also jump but in new patterns.
- The Empress jumps like a Knight or moves like a Rook.
- The Princess, similarly, jumps like a Knight or moves like a Bishop.
- The Rose does a series of continuous knight moves, but it must make a 45 degree turn with each leap. In other words, the first leap is like a knight, the second leap continues 45 degrees right or left compared than going straight, once decided if to go right or left the next leaps need to turn the same way. So if each square it comes in contact is empty the 8th leaps would make full circle and put the Rose back to its starting position. Doing so won't change the board position, but still count as a move, Betza calls this loop a "null-move."★
The Save uses custom models, designed by me, for all pieces and the board. In addition a script underlines the moves and where a piece protects its companions. However, at the moment Castling and En Passant capture moves are not underlined; in addition the script does not verify if a move may be illegal because it would leave the King under attack. Be attentive.
The save also has turns for two players, and four camera positions. With SHIFT-1 to 4 you can easily see the board for White (1, 2) or Black (3, 4).
Wikipedia entry about the game.
★ Personally I see it as a violation of the zugzwang, but the author himself says: "I think that circular pieces should be permitted to use the null-move, that is, to go around the circle and stop where they started." See chessvariants.com.