How many squares are on a chess board?
Chess on a Really Big Board Shatranj", where the pieces would be weakened further. Another suggestion of his was Four Board Chess with different armies, suggesting that one player could use knights and the other could use fibnifs (fbNF; moves forward or backward as knight, or as ferz in all directions), though noting that creating completely new armies was not possible in 1996 as the values of long-range pieces on 16×16 boards were not yet known to much precision. However, none were developed beyond ideas. A further variant Betza considered is "Sixty-Four Board Chess", which would be played on a 64×64 board with 4096 squares (the
Chess on a Really Big Board Chess on a Really Big Board Chess on a Really Big Board is a large chess variant invented by Ralph Betza around 1996. It is played on a 16×16 chessboard with 16 pieces (on the back rank) and 16 pawns (on the second rank) per player. Since such a board can be constructed by pushing together four standard 8×8 boards, Betza also gave this variant the alternative names of Four Board Chess or Chess on Four Boards. Chess on a Really Big Board was created as an outgrowth of Betza's ideas on three-dimensional chess, after he noted that an 8×8×8