Martian Chess is an abstract strategy game for two or four players invented by Andrew Looney in 1999. It is played with Icehouse pyramids on a chessboard...
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Icehouse pieces (redirect from Ice chess)
Laboratories, in 1996. Additional games beyond Icehouse were created including Martian Chess, Zendo, and Homeworlds. Looney then created the IceTowers game which...
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Icehouse: The Martian Chess Set is a 1999 board game published by Looney Labs. Icehouse, The Martian Chess Set is a set of playing pieces that can be utilized...
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board games, have created chess variants. These include Robert Abbott (Baroque chess) and Andy Looney (Martian chess). While chess, shogi, and xiangqi have...
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Jetan, or Martian chess Makruk, or Thai chess Shatar, or Mongolian chess Shatranj, or Persian chess Shogi, sometimes called Japanese chess Sittuyin, or...
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their own chess army from a collection of 17 different pieces. Gess: Chess with variable pieces, played on a Go board. Jetan: A "Martian chess" invented...
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Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which...
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Janggi (redirect from Korean chess)
sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar...
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Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...
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notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...
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