chess in colour

• Introduction
• Rules
• How to Play

chess-as we play it today in black&white has as objective in mind to destroy its opponent.the game i'm proposing in colour has a totaly different approach as it's objective is to finish a game without anybody being left out. (the 2 sides need to help each other to bring the game to a conclusion)

the game can be played with different forms

(coloured lights, glasspieces, carpets, woodpieces, etc...)

Rules

• the same moves are used as in chess
• there are 2 camps with an equal proportion of complementary colours
• players try to find their opposite, then can leave the board
• the game is finished when all the players have left the board
• winners are people or groups that finish a game as quick as possible or with the least moves

A great way to play the game would be with coloured lights

opposite lights would make a white light (and so can leave the board) while others

just make a different colour (wrong move)

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Update May 2005: working on the programming of this game ( move count, best score, timer,etc...) , hopefully everything should be up and running in a few weeks time (add this page to your favourites and revisit in a few weeks)

altough all the pieces seem to be looking the same they are all different

this piece will only interact with nr 6 above (flowing pattern)

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altough the game is not so much of winning or losing, it could be played in some form of tournament where the winner or winners would be a person or group that finishes the game with the least moves

it could also be made as a role playing game if you stretch the imagination a bit (as an example-imagine a story like Romeo and Juliette where instead of dying they get married on a secret location and need to get both clans as quickly as possible to the wedding ) as i said only an example , but variations on co-operative approaches could be invisighed

project 12 year in the making
This is one of the big carpets i made as displayed at the festival of worldcultures (- Dun Loughaire Ireland - 2004)

They have been made with "New Zealand Pure Virgin Wool" and involved a whole hamlet (village) near the old city of Benares (Varanasi) (India )+ a plethora of other people(muslims, hindus and christians) .Considerable time and energy has been spend to realise this venture.

As an artist i have been funding those prototypes trough the sale of my paintings and photographs

Photographs. Paintings Carpets Prototypes

Art collectors or aficionados considering buying this labour of love , or sponsoring future projects can contact me via e-mail info@theapplegallery.com