Greyhawk: Looking for Planar Chess

[Aluvial]

I'm looking for information about planar chess. Specifically, the rules.

I think this may have been printed in Dragon Mag, but I'm not sure.

Anyone know where to look?

Thanks,

Aluvial

 

[Alzrius]

Planar chess? I don't know that. The closest I can think of is Dragon Chess, from issue #100.

 

[Laman Stahros]

Dragon Chess has three boards, one is the sky, one is the ground, the last is underground. Does that sound like what you are looking for?

 

[Huw]

Gygax invented another chess game, Fidchell, for the Aerth setting in Dangerous Journeys. It was a shogi-like chess variant, but one of its features were "gates" on the board to the underworld, abyss, land of fey, etc. through which bonus pieces could be summoned.

If that's the one you're interested in, then AFAIK the only complete rules are in Epic of Aerth.

 

[Aluvial]

Perhaps Dragon Chess might work.

I'm looking for something that he wrote about in one of his novels about Gord... at one point Gord goes to the prison of Tharizdun and is asked to play Planar chess...

I thought I had seen at one time that there were rules for this, but I may have mixed it up in my mind as Dragon Chess...

Anyhow, I'm looking for the other if it exists.

Aluvial

 

[Cyronax]

Why am I thinking of some of the Mount Olympus scenes from the classic movie Clash of the Titans all of a sudden?

C.I.D.

 

[grodog]

DragonChess rules appear on Canonfire! @ http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=7
and you can see per the discussion on Christopher Siren's site @
http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/inner.html#prison and http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/gordmisc.html#planarchess
that Tharizdun and Gord did in fact play PlanarChess, which is a variant of DragonChess.