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Heavy Chess

Heavy Chess is a slight variation of Sac Chess (Kevin Pacey, 2015).

Setup

The board has 10 x 10 checkered squares with a white one at the right end of each player.

There are 30 pieces per side:

White's pieces:

Black's pieces mirroring with King (f9), Amazon (e9), etc.

Initial Setup:

Initial Setup:

Pieces

Queen: slides to any square along the file, the rank or a diagonal on which it stands. Identical to standard chess.

Rook: moves to any square along the file or the rank on which it stands. Identical to standard chess (except there is no castling)

Bishop: slides to any square along a diagonal on which it stands. Identical to standard chess

Knight: a (2,1) jumper, it jumps to the opposite square of a 2x3 rectangle. No matter what the intermediate square contains. Identical to standard chess

Amazon: it combines the move of Queen and Knight. An old idea, used by Russians instead of the Queen in the 18th century.

Move of the Amazon

Marshal: it combines the move of Rook and Knight. It can be found in many, many chess variants since Carrera, Bird, Capablanca and many others like Grand Chess or Seirawan Chess.

Move of the Marshal

Cardinal: it combines the move of Bishop and Knight. It can be found in many, many chess variants since Carrera, Bird, Capablanca, Modern and many others like Grand Chess or Seirawan Chess.

Move of the Cardinal

Centaur: it is another compound piece that moves as a Knight or a non-royal King.

Move of Centaur

Admiral: it is another compound piece that moves as a Rook or a non-royal King. That means that it is a Rook that can also step one space diagonally. It corresponds to the Dragon King that is found in Shogi.

Move of the Admiral

Legate: it is another compound piece that moves as a Bishop or a non-royal King. That means that it is a Bishop that can also step one space orthogonally. It corresponds to the Dragon Horse that is found in Shogi.

Move of the Legate


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By Jean-Louis Cazaux.

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Web page created: 2020-12-21. Web page last updated: 2020-12-22

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