User:Andreas Kaufmann

Русский — родной язык этого участника.

Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.

I live in the west part of Germany in a small town near Aachen. I work as a software engineer in a company called Synopsys, developing electronic design automation software. I have a home page. It contains freeware games and Winboard adapter, which I created for Zillions of Games engine.

I can be often found on BrainKing.com internet server, playing chess, loop chess, gothic chess, dark chess as well as backgammon. My user name is "andreas" there.

My contributions

Articles I have written:

Articles, which were extended by me:

I also did many edits to different articles on chess and chess variants.

Watch list

Portal:Chess

Work list

Knight relay chess
Write article on Capablanca random chess, use this source.
Shatranj - add sections: 1) piece values, 2) game play, tabias 3) compositions
Add Shatranj variants.
Kriegspiel (chess) - add mate in 8 Kriegspiel problem (last on that page) as an example.
Article on The Game of Three Kingdoms (3-player version of Xiangqi).
Socionics

Useful stuff

How to use a chess diagramm template

Here is how I typically use a chess diagramm template. I usually copy one of text fragments given below and modify as needed.

Chess diagramm

{{Chess diagram|=
| tright
| 
|= 

 8 |rd|nd|bd|qd|kd|bd|nd|rd|=
 7 |pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|=
 6 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 5 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 2 |pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|=
 1 |rl|nl|bl|ql|kl|bl|nl|rl|=
    a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  

| '''Chess'''. Starting position
}}

Chess variant with uncheckered board

{{Chaturanga diagram|=
| tright
|
|=
 |rd|nd|bd|kd|qd|bd|nd|rd|=
 |pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|pd|=
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 |pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|pl|=
 |rl|nl|bl|kl|ql|bl|nl|rl|=
|'''Shatranj'''. Inital position.
}}

Chess problem

{{Chess diagram|=
| tright
| '''Eric Angelini'''<br>''Europe Echecs'' 433, Apr. 1995
|= 

 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 7 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 6 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 5 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |=
    a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  

| '''Black to move. What did White just play?''' Typical example of retrograde analysis problem. 
}}

References

Here are the sources I use in articles on chess variants:

* [[Harold James Ruthven Murray|H.J.R. Murray]] (1913). ''A History of Chess''. ISBN 0936317019.
* D.B. Pritchard (1994). ''The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants''. ISBN 0952414201.
* D.B. Pritchard (2000). ''Popular Chess Variants''. ISBN 0713485787.
* [[Edward Lasker]] (1959). ''The Adventure of Chess'', ISBN 048620510.