Almost Chess chess pieces, which culminated in the development of Chess with different armies. Almost Chess Almost Chess is a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza in 1977. The game is played using a standard chessboard and pieces, except the players' queens are replaced by chancellors, which combine the moves of a rook and a knight. Almost Chess was featured in NOST magazine "Nost-algia", beginning with issue 205. Other than the replacement of queens by chancellors (notated "C"), the game follows all the rules and conventions of standard chess. The Fool's mate in Almost Chess begins 1.Cc3. Replacing queens with chancellors imparts
Chess game collection Chess game collection The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player (e.g. "My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937" by Alexander Alekhine), annotations of games from a single tournament, collections of chess games covering a certain period of time (e.g. "Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games. Vol.1 1485-1866" by Levy and O'Connell), opening move collections, or collections centered on tactical or strategic themes (e.g. games featuring brilliant defense, attacking play, endgame technique, and so on). "Chess Informant" is a series which collects chess games annotated by top players and publishes them in a language independent