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Cubic chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cubic Chess is a chess variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec beginning with an early version (named Echos ) in 1977. The game substitutes cubes for the chess pieces , where the six faces of each cube display a different chess piece (pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king). This provides an efficient means (rotating the cube on a square) to change a piece's type. The game begins like standard chess , with a normal 8×8 chessboard , and cubes rotated so that uppermost faces reflect the standard chess starting position. rotate any pawn on its square to any piece type contained in the player's "stock".
Shogi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shogi ( 将棋 , shōgi ? , generals' chess) ( / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ iː / ), also known as Japanese chess , is a two-player strategy board game in the same family as Western chess , chaturanga , and Chinese xiangqi , and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan .
Go (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Go ( weiqi in Chinese , igo in Japanese , baduk in Korean ), is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago. The game is noted for being rich in strategy despite its relatively simple rules. The game is played by two players who alternately place black and white stones on the vacant intersections (called "points") of a grid of 19×19 lines (beginners often play on smaller 9×9 and 13×13 boards). The object of the game is to use one's stones to surround a larger portion of the board than the opponent. Once placed on the board, stones can only be moved if they are captured. When a game concludes, the controlled points (territory) are counted along with captured stones to determine who has more points.