Gess is an abstract strategy board game for two players, involving a grid board and mutating pieces. The name was chosen as a conflation of " chess " and " Go ". It is pronounced with a hard "g" as in "Go", and is thus homophonous with "guess".
3-534: Gess is a board game. GESS or Gess may also refer to: Gess Gess was created by the Puzzles and Games Ring of The Archimedeans , and first published in 1994 in the society's journal Eureka . It was popularized by Ian Stewart 's Mathematical Recreations column in the November 1994 issue of Scientific American . A Go set is one easy way to assemble the equipment needed for gess. The 19 × 19 line grid
6-430: Is simultaneously an 18 × 18 grid of squares, and the starting position needs only 43 each of the black and white stones. The rules describe a highly variable set of pieces, which will often change every turn. In total there are 510 possible sets of a footprint ; however, the starting position uses these rules to emulate chess pieces on a 6×6 board: king , queen , bishop , rook and pawn in this order R–B–Q–K–B–R in
9-404: The last row (black's view) and 6 pawns in the next row. The game objective, to remove the opponent's "ring" (described as a piece that moves like a chess king) also mimics that of chess. The rows are named 2 to 19 (1 and 20 being outside the grid), and the files are named b to s ( a and t again being outside the grid). A move is notated by noting the place of the centre of the footprint at
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