Diamond Chess

Diamond Chess has several remarkable qualities:

• No rules are different from standard chess.
• Each player begins with 25 pieces- 12 bishops, 10 rooks, 2 queens, 1 king.
• No pawns or knights are used.
• Development is faster, more dangerous, less tedious than with standard chess.
• The theoretical depth is NOT disappointing.
• The opening setup has perfect, bilateral symmetry.

Game stability and a very small first-move advantage are assured due to:

• An opening setup where no captures are possible upon the first move.
• An opening setup where the kings are very well protected.

Diamond Chess is ready to be played, analyzed, enjoyed against computer and/or human opponents.

• "Zillions Of Games 1.X" allows the opening setup to be played directly as a game.
• Six standard chess sets are required to physically own a Diamond Chess set (except the board).

Click here to download the Zillions of Games implementation of this game.