Luminous Chess v1.0

[Info-Mac]

Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/game/brd/luminous-chess.hqx

Luminous Chess is a Macintosh application which implements an unusual
Chess board. Every piece on the board casts light onto the squares which
it may attack; one player's pieces cast red light, and the other's cast
blue. These lights overlap and combine, showing you instantly the
influence exerted over any square on the board.

Luminous Chess is strictly a two-player game; there is no computer
opponent. However, it has several advantages over a normal Chess board:

1.The luminous squares are both beautiful and informative.
2.Luminous Chess implements both standard and Grand Chess (which
requires a 10x10 board).
3.The pieces in Luminous Chess are not easily knocked over by the cat
while you're trying to play.

(Grand Chess mostly follows standard Chess Rules, but uses a larger board,
adds two extra pieces, and eliminates the "castle" move.)

Joseph J. Strout
Department of Neuroscience, UCSD
http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/