Accelerated Chess
Accelerated Chess is a 2-player chess variant invented by Max Koval in 2021. This game is played by two players on an unusually-shaped rectangular board and incorporates one set of 32 white and black coloured pieces, which remain unchanged from the original FIDE chess set.
This game's page on the Chess Variant Pages was recreated in 2022 with corrected graphics and rewritten text with more clarified rules.
Setup
White: king (e0); queen (d0); rooks (a0), (h0); bishops (c0), (f0); knights (b0), (g0); pawns (a1), (b1), (c1), (d1), (e1), (f1), (g1), (h1).
Black: king (d9); queen (e9); rooks (a9), (h9); bishops (c9), (f9); knights (b9), (g0); pawns (a8), (b8), (c8), (d8), (e8), (f8), (g8), (h8).
To avoid using the two-digit number (10), zero is used as the mark for the first row.
The notation system for the board (as well as the further reference for the definition of orthogonals and diagonals).
Due to the board's geometry, two separate cells can have the same name (a3, a4, a5, b3, etc.). To distinguish them from one another, it is required to mark them with the name of the player's half of the board (for example, the c3 cell, which is closer to the black pieces, is marked as c3; the a4 cell, which is closer to the white pieces, is marked as a3w). You don't necessarily need to distinguish the cells from one another if the piece can reach only one of them.
Rules
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By Max Koval.
Web page created: 2022-11-23. Web page last updated: 2023-02-12