Computer Olympiad Starting in 1999, that event is now co-sponsored by the World Bridge Federation. Chess is a two-player board game played on a checkered game-board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player begins with 16 pieces of varying characteristics, the objective being to capture one's opponent's king piece. Many computer-versus-computer events are held beyond those of the Computer Olympiad. Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players from the same family as western or international chess. Known primarily as Xiangqi internationally, the game is referred to as Chinese Chess in the Computer Olympiad competitions. Chinese Dark
Omega Chess Omega Chess Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed by Daniel MacDonald. The game is played on a 10×10 board with four extra squares, one added diagonally adjacent to the corner squares. The game is laid out like standard chess with the addition of a "champion" in each corner of the 10×10 board and a "wizard" in each new added square. Part of the reason for adding the new pieces was to equalize the number of jumping pieces with sliding pieces. The wizard was created specially to be a color-bound piece, an analog to the bishop. Because of the