Revisions

The game requires a 9 x 9 board. The pieces change on ranks 3, 5 and 7 according to the default.

Setup

Pieces

Rules

Except for the following changes, the Fide rules apply.

There is no capturing en passant, castling and promotion of pawns takes place.
Bare king loses.
Stalemate is a win.

The pawn can move two squares forwards and capture opposing pieces. It does not move over pieces.

The dragon horse is a hybrid figure consisting of bishop and wasir move options.

The dragon horse can change color diagonals using the dragon horse's wasir move option!

The knightrider can perform the move of a knight once or several times in sequence.

King: Castling: This is a move of the king and either rook of the same colour along the player’s first rank, counting as a single move of the king and executed as follows: the king is transferred from its original square three squares towards the rook on its original square, then that rook is transferred to the square just next to the king.

Notes

Play it !

files=9 ranks=9 promoZone=1 promoChoice=RQACZNHDIJ graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/alfaeriePNG/ squareSize=50 graphicsType=png stalemate=win baring=0 pawn:P:fWfnD:pawn:a1,b1,c1,d1,f1,g1,h1,i1,a2,b2,c2,d2,e2,f2,g2,h2,i2,,a8,b8,c8,d8,e8,f8,g8,h8,i8,a9,b9,c9,d9,f9,g9,h9 morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// rook:R:R:rook: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// queen:Q:Q:queen: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// archbishop:A:BN:cardinal: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// chancellor:C:RN:chancellor: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// amazon:Z:QN:amazon: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// nightrider:N:NN:nightrider: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// dragon horse:H:BW:promotedbishop: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// dragon king:D:RF:promotedrook: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// cardinalrider:I:BNN:cardinalrider: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// chancellorrider:J:RNN:chancellorrider: morph=//RHNDQDNHR//CAJIZIJAC//RHNDQDNHR// king:K:KisO3:king:e1,,e9

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Comments

Snappy Chess. A nimble affair thanks to morphing. (9x9, Cells: 81)

🔔Notification on Sun, Aug 25, 2024 01:28 PM EDT:

The author, Gerd Degens, has updated this page.

Bn Em wrote on Thu, Aug 22, 2024 01:45 PM EDT:

It's still completely obscure to me what exactly is meant by “according to the default”. I have the impression of a dictionary translation from German with an unfortunate bad guess…

💡📝Gerd Degens wrote on Wed, Jun 19, 2024 10:01 AM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from Tue Jun 18 03:00 AM:

In the future I will try to force the highlighting mode by inserting the line useMarkers=1 into the diagram definition. I hope I can manage this step.

I have made some changes.

💡📝Gerd Degens wrote on Tue, Jun 18, 2024 11:39 AM EDT in reply to Bn Em from Mon Jun 17 08:00 PM:

… none of which I find severe enough to block publication, but it'd make more sense 'imo for these things to be brought in line one way or the other

If that's the case, I'm actually quite happy.

I'm sure I can't please everyone in the description.

I have done my best to make the description as comprehensible as possible. I will not have reached the 100 percent level, I agree with you. But everything below that, which is necessary to understand the variant, should be enough.

Serious errors must of course be corrected.

H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Jun 18, 2024 03:00 AM EDT in reply to Gerd Degens from Fri Mar 29 02:22 PM:

Also here having three diagrams that show the initial setup seems redundant.

The move diagrams seem to be screenshots from an Interactive Diagram, but they use color coding for the moves. This mode of highlighting turned out to be unsatisfactory on monochrome displays, which was the reason that a mode was added to the I.D. that highlights with symbols recognizable by their shape, in addition to color. The I.D. would automatically switch to that mode when it detects a gray-scale display, and can do that because it is interactive. For static images I would recommend using the shaped marker symbols in the screenshots, forcing that mode of highlighting by including the line useMarkers=1 in the Diagram definition.

The remark in red on the Dragon Horse seems superfluous, and even a bit patronizing; the reader can expected to be smart enough to notice such hings himself. You don't write a similar remark for tha Cardinal, where it would apply just as well. But it is normal that pieces can access the entire board; alsmost all pieces do that. If anything would deserve a special note, it would be on pieces that are color bound.

The Pawn can move and capture one or two squares forward.

Also here it doesn't specify how a King would morph.

Snappy Chess

By Gerd P. Degens