On Mar 23, 8:21 am, wrote:
On Mar 23, 1:49 am, wrote:

Hey, anyone have a lead on this? I would like to get pieces of the
Capablanca chess variety (Knight-Rook, Knight-Bishop), but my search
on the web has come up empty. Anyone have any possible leads here on
this?

Thanks...
- Rich

Rich,

Capablanca pieces are used in Christian Freeling's chess variant
"Grand Chess," where they are called the Marshal and the Cardinal. I
don't have a Grand Chess set myself, but I believe they are still sold
on Freeling's website. The physical representation of the Capablanca
pieces is somewhat crude (horses with things growing out of their
heads), but Grand Chess as a chess variant is excellent --- the key is
the back row, which is empty except for the rooks, allowing for much
more freedom in setting up defense and attack.

Steve

Do you have a link to the specific purchase page? I found his site:
http://mindsports.nl/index-mindsports.html

But I don't see a store on there.

Also I am in the United States. I would like to be able to order them
and have lower cost shipping. I would like to get them to experiment
with an 8x8 version of Freeling's game, and also a version of
Capablanca that uses gating to get the Cap pieces on the board. In
addition, I have another one more standard I am working on, based on
the same gating concept to I would like to try out. I might look to
also code it up in Zillions, but need to figure out how to do gating.
Fairly soon, I will be getting the IAGO Chess rules up on the variant
site. I am doing final tweaks.

- Rich