<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><id>https://lichess.org/@/Nisticism/blog</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/Nisticism/blog" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://lichess.org/@/Nisticism/blog.atom" /><title>Nisticism's Blog</title><updated>2026-04-14T06:48:28.382Z</updated><entry><id>https://lichess.org/@/Nisticism/blog/a-new-platform-for-variations-and-game-design/fndh193x</id><published>2026-04-14T06:48:28.382Z</published><updated>2026-04-14T06:48:28.382Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://lichess.org/@/Nisticism/blog/a-new-platform-for-variations-and-game-design/fndh193x" /><title>A New Platform for Variations and Game Design</title><category term="Chess" label="Chess" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess"></category><category term="Strategy" label="Strategy" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Strategy"></category><category term="Chess_variant" label="Chess variant" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Chess_variant"></category><category term="Software_Development" label="Software Development" scheme="https://lichess.org/blog/topic/Software_Development"></category><content type="html">&lt;img class=&quot;ublog-post-image&quot; width=&quot;880&quot; height=&quot;550&quot; alt=&quot;gridgrove header image&quot; src=&quot;https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;amp;h=550&amp;amp;op=thumbnail&amp;amp;path=31w8fCitO-Km.webp&amp;amp;w=880&amp;amp;sig=8abf14935e32af0067d410fff33ba31e5c2ca8a4&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm an amateur chess player and creator of a free tool that I think will help people implement creative ideas to make games that have never been played before.</content><media:thumbnail url="https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&amp;h=550&amp;op=thumbnail&amp;path=31w8fCitO-Km.webp&amp;w=880&amp;sig=8abf14935e32af0067d410fff33ba31e5c2ca8a4"></media:thumbnail><author><name>Nisticism</name></author></entry></feed>