Grand chess
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Grand chess is a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling in 1984. It is played on a 10 x 10 board, has two additional pawns, and two new pieces: the marshall and the cardinal. The marshall moves like a knight and a rook of standard chess; the cardinal moves like the knight and the bishop.
Rules
The pieces are set up on the player's second and third ranks as shown on the diagram at right. All pawns are defended in initial setup. The rooks are left in the first rank, eliminating the need for castling, and speeding up their release into the game.
Pawns may elect to promote upon reaching the eighth or ninth rank, but must promote at the tenth. Unlike in standard chess, it is illegal to promote a pawn to a piece of which one still has the original number on the board (e.g. to have two queens or three rooks on the board at the same time). If no piece is available to which to promote, a pawn on the ninth rank may not move, but can nonetheless give check.
See also
External links
- Christian Freeling's Grand chess by Hans L. Bodlaender.
- Grand chess introduction on Freeling's website, contains rules, problems and example games.
- BrainKing.com, internet server to play Grand chess online.
- 2001 World championship game, annotated by Wayne Schmittberger, the Grand chess world champion.
- Grand chess, The Yerevan Games, by Malcolm Horne, Variant Chess, Volume 3, Issue 24, Summer 1997, pages 71-72.
- Grand Chess | Material Values of Pieces