Check out Atomic Chess, our featured variant for November, 2024.

This page is written by the game's inventor, Albert Lee. This game is a favorite of its inventor.

Platonic Chess

Platonic Chess is played on a 10x10 board. It consist of each of five chess pieces based on the Platonic solids, and a row of ten Pawns on the third rank.

Setup

Pieces

Pawns

There are ten pawns at the third rank, and they move as in Orthodox Chess.

Platonic Solids

Tetrahedron

A tetrahedron has 4 surfaces, so it can only reach 4 squares.

It moves one square orthogonally like the Wazir.
Cube

A cube has 6 surfaces, so it can only reach 6 squares.

It moves one square diagonally like the Ferz and slides up to two squares forward.
Octahedron

Octahedron has 8 surfaces, so it can only reach 8 squares.

It moves diagonally like a Bishop , but only up to two squares.
Dodecahedron p

Dodecahedron has 12 surfaces, so it can only reach 12 squares.

It has the combined moves of Knight and Dabbabah.
Icosahedron p

Icosahedron has 20 surfaces, so it can only reach 20 squares.

It moves like a Rookbut only up to four squares or like an Alfil

Rules

Promotion

A Pawn can capture as a Platonic solid piece in addition to its original moves upon reaching the enemy side:

Castling

A Tetrahedron can perform the castling move with an Icosahedron on the same side. The final position is the same as the positions of the equivalent pieces (King and Rook) after Queenside castling in orthodox chess.

Notes

How to play using commercially available equipment

You will need:

Play with the ChessCraft App

Platonic Chess


This 'user submitted' page is a collaboration between the posting user and the Chess Variant Pages. Registered contributors to the Chess Variant Pages have the ability to post their own works, subject to review and editing by the Chess Variant Pages Editorial Staff.

By Albert Lee.

Last revised by Albert Lee.


Web page created: 2021-06-26. Web page last updated: 2021-06-27

Revisions of MSplatonic-chess