Chess 68
Description
- Chess 68 is a game created by myself,
basically in order to give more depth to standard chess
and imprevedibility.
- Used players can continue to use their
opening strategies because new pieces get in action only
after seveval moves, in order to give them the necessary
space to walk outside.
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- It looks like standard Chess, with the
following modifications:
- * 4 more squares linked to the 4
corner squares (idea taken from "Omega
Chess"), these squares takes the coordinates as
their ranks and files were present and contiguous:
z0, i0 for white; z9, i9 for black
- * 2 more pieces:
- "the Prince" = P
- "the Princess" = S
The Set-Up
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New Board setup
No further purchase of expensive chessboards
for this variant: we can use the same standard chessboard to play
Chess 68 !
Take a 8x8 chessboard and add the 4 corner
chess by yourself, or just keep in memory the position of the 4
corner squares to play !
The new setup has been created looking at
innovative "Omega Chess", in particular for those
concerns the 4 corner squares that give the possibility to insert
2 new pieces for each side leaving the same armony in disposition
of the chessboard. The main difference is the chessboard itself
that is always 8x8, this to get easier for new people to play
inside their own standard chessboards.
New pieces
- The Prince: Moves like a knight
with the possibility to shift one square orthogonally.
- Can cover up to 16 squares, and great
range of forks as it’s still a leaper.
- Its power is maximum when used in
defensive jobs or when the chessboard is still full of
pieces.
- In the downside, its slow moving and quite
far position at the start force it to move outside later.
- Like all the standard pieces except for
the Knights, Prince must wait the development of other
pieces before going into action, in this case external
pawns or Knights.
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- The Princess: Moves like a knight
with the possibility to shift one square diagonally.
- Can cover up to 16 squares, and great
range of forks as it’s still a leaper.
- For the action, it is very similar to the
Prince, except it can cover only squares of one color at
a time. The possibility to shift diagonally instead of
orthogonally gives it more attacking power than Prince
and it’s very powerful against Pawns.
Value of Pieces:
| Piece |
Standard
Chess |
Chess 68 |
| Pawn |
1 |
1 |
| Knight |
3 |
3.5 |
| Bishop |
3 |
3.5 |
| Rook |
5 |
5 |
| Princess |
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5 |
| Prince |
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5.5 |
| Queen |
9 |
10 |
Minimum material to Mate:
- The final is the part that changes the
more in opposition to standard Chess.
- The 4 new squares (acting like refuges)
force players with few material to a tast force in order
to mate an opposite king alone, because stalemate
possibility increases and also because the attack against
the corner square is very difficult (Rooks can't go
there).
- The minimum material to force check-mate
varies as follows:
- (As it's easy to note, Rook alone can't
mate opposite king and even two rooks have to trouble to
!)
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- 1 Queen has no problem...
- 1 Prince alone may mate, can nearly force
mate, but if opposite king plays correctly the game is
draw
- 1 Princess can’t mate
- 2 Bishops easily mate
- 1 Bishop alone may mate, but only if
opposite king does a mistake going to a corner square of
the same color
- 1 Bishop + 1 Knight mate easier than in
standard chess
- 2 Knights new mate, however after quite a
hard maneuvre
- 1 Rook can't mate
- 2 Rooks mate only if king can't reach one
of the 4 safe squares
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- Chess 68
- invented by Setti Roberto