User:Andreas Kaufmann
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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
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.