There is a great chess website out there called BrainKing.com, and what is unique about it is that you can play lots of chess variants that are not offered on any other site.
The site offers other games, but I'm mostly talking about the chess variants. The site is correspondence only, but I am hoping that features of the site can be adapted for live play.
Unfortunately, BrainKing.com is a dying site, and hardly anything has changed, and the owner is almost ready to retire the site for good in 2018! He is looking for someone to purchase the site.
If purchasing the site is too expensive, I see some value in at least purchasing the rights to the code used for many variants. It would be a shame if these variants were to just die out!!
Here are some variants not offered anywhere else yet:
*My Favorites, probably should be implemented on lichess.org
**Definitely should be implemented!
Corner Chess
Fortress Chess
Extinction Chess
Maharajah Chess
Dark Chess**
Janus Chess
Embassy Chess**
Screen Chess**
Crazy Screen Chess**
Cylinder Chess**
Amazon Chess*
Berolina Chess**
Legan Chess*
Knight Relay Chess*
Grand Chess**
Capablanca Random Chess**
Los Alamos Chess
Ambiguous Chess**
Massacre Chess**
Knightmate Chess*
Cheshire Cat Chess*
Ice Age Chess**
And more.
Please moderators, buy BrainKing.com (or just the rights to the code) and don't let all these great variants die out in a year!
The site offers other games, but I'm mostly talking about the chess variants. The site is correspondence only, but I am hoping that features of the site can be adapted for live play.
Unfortunately, BrainKing.com is a dying site, and hardly anything has changed, and the owner is almost ready to retire the site for good in 2018! He is looking for someone to purchase the site.
If purchasing the site is too expensive, I see some value in at least purchasing the rights to the code used for many variants. It would be a shame if these variants were to just die out!!
Here are some variants not offered anywhere else yet:
*My Favorites, probably should be implemented on lichess.org
**Definitely should be implemented!
Corner Chess
Fortress Chess
Extinction Chess
Maharajah Chess
Dark Chess**
Janus Chess
Embassy Chess**
Screen Chess**
Crazy Screen Chess**
Cylinder Chess**
Amazon Chess*
Berolina Chess**
Legan Chess*
Knight Relay Chess*
Grand Chess**
Capablanca Random Chess**
Los Alamos Chess
Ambiguous Chess**
Massacre Chess**
Knightmate Chess*
Cheshire Cat Chess*
Ice Age Chess**
And more.
Please moderators, buy BrainKing.com (or just the rights to the code) and don't let all these great variants die out in a year!
