This page is written by the game's inventor, Doug Chatham.
Two Pipe Chess
This game is an entry in the contest to create a 41-square chess variant.
The name is based on the initial arrangement of pieces, which looks somewhat
like two tobacco pipes. (Also, the board can be seen as two pipes surrounding
a three-rank, five-file center rectangle.)
Board Setup
The board has nine files and five ranks, with squares a5, b5, h1 and i1
removed, and has this initial setup:
Pieces move as in regular chess, except
(1) there is no castling
(2) pawns promote on the fifth rank and
(3) there are no bishops (and pawns cannot promote to bishops).
