The rules and info flyer for the Fandemonium Jetan tournament can be downloaded here.

A rules document for printing and laminating on both sides of a US Letter size sheet of paper can be cownloaded here. There's nothing about Fandemonium on it, however I've included the Wikipedia URL for Barsoom and a note about the public domain status of the Barsoom books.

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How to make a Jetan set using two sets of inexpensive Chess pieces.


Jetan is played on a 10x10 grid and has two more types of pieces than Chess.
With 20 pieces per side VS 16 in Chess, the other pieces have to come from somewhere else.

While you could simply use different paint schemes for the other pieces, they would still feel the same as other pieces.

Here's how I made Dwar and Flier/Odwar pieces that look and feel different than what they were originally.

I bought two of these Fundex Chess sets for $1.00 each at Ridley's in Weiser, Idaho. Any similar cheap sets with small pieces will work just fine.

Click here to download instructions (9K ZIP) by L. Lynn Smith for making a 10x10 Jetan board from two 8x8 Chess or Checkers boards.





These wire nuts are made by Gardner Bender Part number 10-002 for the blue ones and part number 10-084 for the yellow ones. The blue ones cost 5 cents each and the yellow cost 8 cents each at a local hardware store. The wings on the yellow ones go well with them being for the Flier pieces.




You want large ones that will closely fit over the top cone of the bishops, if they have a spring inside, use an ice pick to pull it out. Be very careful with the ice pick! (Children should ask their parents to do this step.) With the springs out, the large wire nuts will fit the tops of the bishops without having to clip the knobs off. Alternatively, the knobs can be clipped off the bishops and the spring will screw onto the piece a bit.

For the rooks, look for smaller ones that will fit on top and inside the "crown" without needing force to hold them or spreading the top. You need four of each size.



Use cyanoacrylate (Super Glue) to hold the wire nuts onto the tops of the pieces.

Put glue around the bottom of the top cone on the bishops, then twist the wire nut as you put it on to spread the glue all the way around.
For the rooks, a few small drops inside the top should wick completely around. Place the wire nut inside the top.

Set the pieces aside for the glue to harden, which could take up to 15 minutes, depending on the glue used.

Use black spraypaint on the wire nuts on the black pieces to finish them.

The white pieces all need painted orange or yellow, or orange and yellow or paint both sides however you want as long as they can be identified as Orange/Yellow and Black. Pink with purple stripes and yellow polka-dots is right out.

One way to make painting easier is to poke 20 pieces of florist's wire into the edge of a cardboard box then place one piece onto each wire.

The cap on the can of paint I used is a bright orange, but the paint for some reason look exactly like what's found on a CAT bulldozer.

If you want, fill the pieces with clay or something like Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty to give them weight and make them harder to knock over. Gluing circles of felt onto the bottoms of the pieces would be a nice finishing touch.