Grand Dice Chess is now available on Play Online Dice Games

 Good news, guys.

Grand Dice Chess is now available on Play Online Dice Games:

 http://www.playonlinedicegames.com/

http://www.playonlinedicegames.com/grand-dice-chess

Registration for the game is not required.

Play local or against AI.

Grand Dice Chess on the Chess Variants Game Courier

The original Grand Dice Chess is played using dice, but experimentally, the version offered in Game Courier is without dice. New players have the opportunity of a first contact with the game, before playing the real game with dice.

Grand Dice Chess on the Chess Variants Game Courier

Try playing against the AI

Try playing against the AI.

Here is a direct link to the game against the bot. Registration is not required. The bot plays very weakly, but is ideal for understanding the game.

Grand Dice Chess at github.io

To make a pass, it is enough to double-click on the dice that you do not want to play. Remember that you cannot refuse a pawn move.

Grand Dice Chess is available on Dagaz Server

 Now the game is available on the Dagaz server

https://games.dtco.ru/map

Simple and easy registration that does not require email or other personal information.

You can play in complete anonymity mode.

Online Grand Dice Chess tournaments

 Now regular Grand Dice Chess tournaments are available on the website http://abstractgames.ru/index.php

Six people take part in a double round-robin tournament.

Time control: 7 days per game + 2 hour per move

Some interesting Grand Dice Chess problems

 I will post some interesting Grand Dice Chess problems here.

Since we are not dealing with regular chess, where engines are able to evaluate and fully calculate the situation on the board, there will be practically no solutions to these problems.

In all Grand Dice Chess puzzles and problems, one should first of all be guided by intuition and imagination.

1. Black to move 1-1-1-5

2. White to move 1-2-3-5

3. Black to move 1-1-5-5

4. Black to move 1-2-3-3

5. Black to move 1-4-5-5

6. White to play 1-3-3-5. Can you capture Black's King on e12?

The First Experimental Grand Dice Chess Tournament has started

Finally the First Experimental Grand Dice Chess Tournament has started. 10 people from six countries of the world take part in this event.

I want to express my deep gratitude to all those who took part in this event.