As chess evolved from shatranj in the West, pieces gained power by becoming long-range sliders, producing an abstract game where most pieces can cross an open board in a single turn. Eastern variants stay closer to the beginnings of the game, which featured a number of short-range sliders and leapers, but the power pieces still seem to be long-range. What...
Grandmaster is a two-player chess-adjacent game. It uses a modular board composed of 64 square tiles that are used to create an 8x8 board. Each player has 16 pieces. 8 pawns and 8 Grandmasters, which are valued 1-8. The Grandmasters move based on the tiles on which they start the turn. Their value is only used to determine win conditions. Otherwise the...
The game if similar to Halma or Stern-Halma (AKA Chinese Checkers) but is played strictly by two players with a standard draughts set. Each player starts with pieces at a corner of the board, and the object is to move all one's pieces to thee other player's starting position before the oponent does the same. No captures are made but pieces can jump as in...
"Grasshopper is a Backgammon variant invented by Matt Crispin and its most significant feature, compared to the classic Backgammon, is that there are no dice and no luck factor at all. The game strategy fully depends on player's skills." My brief description of how the game is played and the goal: During the game, players attempt to race their 14 pieces...
This abstract game is playable on a square-grid surface of any finite size. In their turn a player may place and remove a total of friendly and enemy pieces (respectively) that is equal to or less than “X”, an integer > 1 and agreed upon at the start of the game. The idea of “control” over a space relying only on occupation of its flanks and rear (which...
Graveyard Chess is an undead-themed chess variant in which the Kings are replaced with Necromancers, and the other pieces are replaced with various undead creatures. Functionally, Graveyard Chess plays similarly to regular chess, but with a smaller board, and a simplified lineup of pieces. The main key difference is that after you capture an opponent's...
"It usually happens on Halloween, during full moons, on the occasional Friday the Thirteenth or pretty much anytime one of the walking dead comes by with a keg of beer. The Graveyard comes alive, the lost spirits start wandering around and it's time to play Graveyard Shift." Published in the October/November 2000 issue of Games Unplugged Magazine. The...
Gravity is a 2-player, perfect information 4-in-a-row game with a twist - pieces gravitate towards the edges of the 8 x 8 board. - The board begins play empty. - Each player drops a stone on an empty cell. - The gravitation of the board pulls the stone towards the edges until it reaches an edge or an already occupied cell. A player wins when he makes an...
A gravity game where the pieces move according to chess rules. Each player has one king (weight 6), three queens (weight 4), four rooks (weight 3), four bishops (weight 2), and four pawns (weight 1). You win by a) taking so many opponent pieces that the board cannot be placed level, c) placing your king on the center line without your opponent being able...