Chess is fun, and you get to learn crazy names like dragon, nimzo indian, gambit etc.

ops, i think i throw a gambit today.

Tic-tac-toe can be rearranged in many ways such as: requirements for winning, structure of board, types of markers (the same or different for each player), etc.
The same can be done with any other game.

Stategy is sculputured thought, so yes.

I used to covet a sertain chess board from a fantasy art sculpturer.
You can even get a Simpsons board.

I've burnt myself out the subject, but since my last post I have finished several games. Designing them, I mean. I started with 2 dimensions, touched on 3, peaked at 11, and then reduced it all to one. I would carry my piece concepts from higher to lower dimensions. One of my favorite pieces was the mirror piece, which could move and capture according to the threats it was exposed to. It's power increased with its danger. As far as traditional movement is concerned, the essentially dichotomy is turning-radius versus speed. It is indeed an art of discrete dynamic form.

I'm an addict for games. Any way we can play?

One of the best concepts I had, as far as I can judge, included a game where the pieces could stack to evolve. And they could, metaphorically speaking, unstack, to devolve. In Chess terms, a white pawn could "capture" or stack itself on another white pawn to form a white knight. And at any time, the knight could split back into two pawns, just as if one moved off the other, in the usual pawnish style. It should be noted that this game included non-chess pieces. Some versions (Interpenetration) did not allow backward or even sideways movement.

But this morph game would be best handled by a computer interface. No clumsy fumbling with pieces would be necessary and the game could be played therefore at high speed. It was philosophically satisfying. A person's king was nothing but the system of his morphological pieces considered as a unity, as a system.

If I were an up-to-date programmer, I could make this interface myself. But my knowledge is way out of date. I designed the games using Paint. I suppose a person could play a slow game that way. Or by a system of notation. Actually, that wouldn't be too hard. I've been getting sick of lightning Chess anyway. It's all necessarily sloppy.

I need to get my ideas online somewhere, and if one seems more playable than the others, we could play a low-speed game. Might be fun with the mirror piece and the prime. The prime is a knight that cannot capture/destroy an enemy without jumping on and destroying a friendly piece first, and then "knight-jumping" from there onto an enemy. Designing pieces reminds me of defining functions. Of course that's really exactly what it is. The pieces are functions in a discrete spatial system.

The 11 dimensional game is only 11 dimensional here and there, else it would boggle the mind entirely.

chess comes down to pattern recognition. when you get a certain pawn structure, when the pieces are in certain positions, you then know what move to make, etc. in this way, i see chess as art, and in this way, i try to make my games beautiful. i well played game is beauty, certain positions are beautiful (to chess players). after a while, you get so used to certain positions, you can tell when you've made a bad move, or when things go wrong, because the position is ugly.

THanks. Good point. And not only are the positions beautiful, the structure of the game is beautiful. The knight is the shadow of the queen, for instance. The 8 by 8 grid is a nice choice. At some point, I didn't even like to play chess all that much but still loved what it was...which is an abstract system of mathematical precision. It really is a form of mathematics in its way. And mathematicians have used it many times.

I'd be interested in what new variants of games you've created with a finer aesthetic appeal. That sounds interesting. Do you have any pictures, diagrams, or anything? Or haven't you actually created anything yet?

Here's a vague idea for a game:

The Greeks had very strict rules on what was allowed when performing geometric proofs. The only pieces allowed were the compass and the straight edge.

I wonder if a two player game could be developed out of this Greek tradition in which each player has a compass and a straightedge. For example with each turn a player can draw an arc or a straight line. I can't figure out what the object of the game would be yet but I like the idea.

In the creative writing section I posted a batch of various ideas. I do have some picture files but not online. The pictures aren't that important really. I did have some nice symbols for a two dimensional representational of certain pieces. I was thinking from the beginning of online versions of these games. For a week or two I was obsessed. I couldn't shut them off or think of anything else. Then I was burnt out. And got into math proper. But I would love to know that some of these ideas were appreciated, as I was/am quite fond of them.

Polynomial (game) - main page for preview release and demo.

I like the special effects in this space shooter, very trippy.