Rocket Chess
I’ve never seen the games with same board. Only Max Koval’s Rhomboidal Chess is near this thought, but I’ve made a game with slightly hugely different board and thematic.
Board
More than half of cells are unusual. Some of them are squares, but more cells are hexagons with one non-convex angle (farther in the text called planes / cluster cells). Therefore all squares which are inside two cluster cells and form their non-convex angle are inner squares, and squares which are placed between four cluster cells are outer squares. Cluster is a group of three cells: two cluster cells with two common angles and inner square between them.
Each piece’s movement depends on type of cell where it stands.
The board has 15 files. The first file from the left has 31 space, the second has 28, the third has 27, and so on; so the fifteenth file (first from the right) has just 3 spaces.
Notation & Setup
Normal: files are numbered from a to o and spaces from bottom to top are named from 1 to 31. Rotated: files are named from 1 to 15, and “ranks” are named alphabetically from bottom, so the lowest are a and the last five (from low to upper) are δ, γ, λ, π and φ (the last).
Pieces
Most of them are classical chessmen, but some fairy or neoteric ones are also here.
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By Lev Grigoriev.
Last revised by Lev Grigoriev.
Web page created: 2023-10-10. Web page last updated: 2023-10-10