How to play Chessplus
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- Learn the rules to the board game Chessplus quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules. For a refresher of the original Chess rules, check out this video: • How to play Chess (202...
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RULES:
The rules are the same as regular chess, except for these changes. For a refresher of those rules, check out this video. Each piece, except for the king, is designed to be able to combine with any other piece. To combine pieces, on your turn, for your move, you are allowed to join your own pieces together by moving them onto the same space. Only two pieces may be combined at a time, and you are not allowed to combine your pieces with your opponent’s pieces. A piece may travel any legal distance to combine but a piece may not pass-through other pieces. You are allowed to combine the same types of pieces if you want. The king may never combine with another piece.
Combined pieces may move as a single piece with the movement power of either piece. For example, if you combine a rook and a bishop, the combined piece can move either like a rook or a bishop. You are allowed to split pieces by only moving 1 of the combined pieces away with that piece’s normal movement, any distance that is legal. You may combine a piece from a split in the same move. You are not allowed to split a piece and have it move with the other piece’s ability. When you split a bishop, that bishop is confined to whatever color it is currently on regardless of the color that bishop began the game on.
There is no limit to the number of times you can combine or split, and you may begin combining on your very first turn. Individual pieces, combined pieces, and splitting pieces may move to capture any other piece like normal. When you capture an opponent’s combined piece, both of their joined pieces are removed from the board.
If a combined piece containing a pawn makes it to the far side of the board, both joined pieces are removed from the board and promoted to a single queen. If you split a pawn from a combination to get promoted, only the pawn is removed from the board. You are not allowed to en passant a combined piece that contains a pawn unless the joined pieces are both pawns.
You are allowed to castle with a combined rook so long as that rook hasn’t moved yet and you follow all the other normal rules for castling. If your pawn moves to any of your starting pawn spaces, it regains its ability to perform the initial 2-step move. The first player to checkmate their opponent, wins.
Rook + Bishop = Discount Queen.
Also, promoting pawns sounds so easy once most of the pieces are off the board.
That is literally what I was thinking about. That's to funny to amagine that.
But it's also easy for the opponents which makes it not easy for everyone.
What a great oxymoron
@@rexferal2781 Bye-bye rook.
@@ItemVexReview Sacrificing a rook for a queen is a good trade, but you can also have the rook bring your pawn to the second or seventh rank, so that the lawn can promote on its next turn
Queen + Knight = DEATH!
Rook+Bishop: Discount Queen
Rook+Pawn: Intercontinental Promotion Missile
Queen+Pawn: IPM Deluxe
Bishop+Pawn: Square-changing Bishop
Knight+Queen: Destroyer
Queen+Knight: Ultimate Kars
queen+knight is called the amazon
@@thevickers7 Why?
@@jonathanschmitt5762 because the amazons were, like female warriors that rode horses. (correct me if i'm wrong idk)
There is a chess variant, where white has only one figure: The maharadja, who is the king amd can move like queen or knight. There is a quite good chance to beat an entire set of enemy pieces with this.
This version fulfilled the age old dream of queen with knight's moveset
God Mode
I had a dream
This has a name, it is called an amazon
@@speedybp5950 jeff bozos
Most OP chess piece ever combined.
"You are not allowed to combine your pieces with your opponent's pieces" but that pawn looks so good though. I want it.
Looks like the black and white version of your pfp
Black then move the pawn 1 square forward, then white move the pawn 1 square forward, then black, then white... then threefold repetition draw
I would obliterate the universe to have it
Not that I can obliterate the universe, but still
ever heard of this roblox game called hours?
There's no interracial children in the chess lore it seems
I like this chess mode because you can still play it on a regular chess board by just putting two pieces on the same tile. The fact putting a combined pawn back to it's original line can allow you to do the double movement is also kinda interesting and can set up interesting setups.
Ohno we are setting up setups, what comes next, setting up the setup to a setup xD?
Well, as long as the squares are big enoguh to fit 2 peices. You would probly need to caniblise a smaller scale set for the peices, with a larger scale one for the board.
Queen/Knight combo is going to absolutely destroy the whole board if you can play it correctly and avoid getting captured
That’s so true lol
Rook + bishop x 2 = 3 queens XD
untouchable 2 blocks away
@@nanatheneko Indeed.
the same with Pawn+Pawn at the near end. making 2 queens in 3 turns
@@nanatheneko 2 rook/bishops and a knight/queen. Let's go
Theoretically combining a queen with a knight would make the ultimate peice
Edit: ok I get it its called the Amazon
can't capture en passant tho
@@falpsdsqglthnsac Wouldn't need to.
That is true :)
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I used to do this in knightmare chess
His voice is exactly how I imagined an audio file of board game instructions to be like.
Combined pieces are such a huge threat to strategize around, since you can't predict whether they'll capture combined or just split one half off and retain part of the original threat on the board. Rook+Bishop is basically OG Queen but it can split up as a threat. Queen+Knight is just a ball of threatening space on the board with threat tentacles reaching everywhere, and it can just get orbited by the knight instead of giving up a good position to snag a short range threat. So many layers to think around at a high level of play.
Reminds me of a version I picked up in a games expo called Paco Sako, taking an opponents piece merges them instead and both players can move the combined peice according to the rules for the half they own meaning that the board never actually loses peices. the interesting part is that if you take a merged peice then it replaces your other peice in the merge which then immedietly moves out of the square according to its normal movement rules. this can be chained and can lead to some VERY unexpected checkmates.
I've never heard of Paco Sako Chess before. The best thing about it is that you can use a Chessplus set to play it!
@@Pahjx It was made by Felix Albers who I met at a Board game expo and got a copy, he refered to it as 'peace chess' (no idea if thats a direct translation) and designed it based on peace, friendship, and collaberation. while friendship isn't quite what I feel when my friend takes 5 consecutive moves and checkmates me out of nowhere it is certainly cute to have a knight and bishop hug it out rather than fight to the death. Their site is easy enough to find and if the game speaks to anyone I'd say pick it up and support the creators but chessplus works perfectly.
@Zero chess 'takes' have to be made by free pieces, a union cannot 'take' or move out of the union on its own. if a free piece 'takes' another free piece it creates a union. A chain occurs whenever a free piece 'takes' a piece already in a union. It replaces your first piece in the union and can then immedietly make a free move, should that move result in it 'taking' a second union then the same happens. e.g (there is a union of your knight and your opponents rook, both of you can move it during your turns but only by the movement rules of the one you own, lets say you manage to take the knight/rook union with one of your bishops. the bishop replaces the knight making it a bishop/rook union and the freed knight immediatly moves to any square that a knight can legally move to, lets say the square it moves to has your queen in a union with an oppenents bishop then the knight replaces the queen and you move your queen to any legal space for what is essenially the 3rd move in your turn.) this is indefinete at can go for as long as you can chain unions until you land a free'd piece on an empty square or take a oppents free piece causing a new union.
Check and Checkmate (or Sako and Paco according to the rules) is simple, you do not legally have to declare Check but can still do so out of courtesy. this is because it is VERY tough to recognise when a chain would lead to a checkmate so instead its down to the players to recognise if they're king is in danger. once the king has united with another piece (or a player has noticed it obviously cannot avoid that outcome in the next move) then the king is in 'Paco' and the opponent wins. This means that the king CANNOT defend itself sice it taking a piece in self defense would result in a union with the piece causing a checkmate.
They mention having a twitch channel on their old kickstarter but I do not know if it is still active.
their are a LOT of fine detail rules I'm leaving out because this is already a wall of text, chessvariants .com has the full rules. if you can its always great to support the people behind these by buying an offical set especially when it was created by just one dutchman with a vision of a peaceful chess full of hugging pieces.
Funny thing is this variant got covered kn this channel only a few weeks ago long after you posted this comment.
Also *reply to a comment you posted a year ago jumpscare*
this is gotta be the most chaotic chess I've ever seen
Search up Kung Fu Chess. THAT is chaos
@@47noodles For even more chaos, try lightning mode kung fu chess. Everything, everywhere at all times.
How about atomic?
You guys are not ready for 5D
so it would seem
"I'm a -pirate- grandmaster" starts playing
Gotta wonder what Chess Grandmasters would say about this.
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my opponent's dead
I love how you can make extremely powerful pieces, but it simultaneously being risky due to the fact that if they're captured, you're losing 2 pieces in 1 turn. It makes for some interesting gamestates
Imagine being in a battlefield and then suddently everyone on your side just merges with someone for some reason
Fear and hunger-esque marriage ritual
@@ESALTEREGO
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This sounds cool but the pieces should look way more distinct from one another. I can imagine my family getting salty for getting sniped when they didn't see it coming because everything looks so similar
I agree
Sounds like a family skill issue
Imagine being able to combine a king with something
when your king is in a checkmated position, just split the other piece. Would be so chaotic and OP
Move 1: move king's knight out
Move 2: king's rook to king's bishop
Move 3: queen to king
Let's you make your king basically uncheckable(in open space) and replaces the lost queen
But kings cannot combine
@@aaronking2020 hence the "imagine" part, since it's merely hypothetical even with this ruleset.
also, accelerated bongcloud
And then the king got en passent captured by a pawn because his quuen part made him move 2 squares gg
Really cool. You can play with a regular board, just putting two pieces in the same square.
Pretty cool. Not sure if it is better to separate or bring together. There is probably a balance (by separating, you get more territorial, but pieces are weaker. By mixing it, you have more powerfull pieces but all "in one basket).
Pretty cool. I will post in my blog about chess variant
the weakness of mixed pieces is that u loose both of them also there should be a rule about knight+queen mix cuz thats op
@@baissazaid1081 this piece is usually called an Amazon. It is extremelly strong, but it does not break the game
Also in your blog do a game of 3 man 5D Hexagonal Progressive Tic Tac Strato Martian Cannibal Solitare Viking Monster Atomic Diplomat Unbound Bughouse Penultima Giveaway of War without Stress Horde Benedict Checkers Chessplus with Multiverse Time Travel with your Kids of the Hill
How to get 3 Queens 101:
1.) Castle
2.) Combine Rook and Bishop
3.) Done
The most pieces you could have with queen movement is 9 Queen's if you somehow promote all 8 of your pawns and 2 rook+ Bishop combos assuming your rooks and bishops survive
I would call this Chess Fusion or Chess Split, not Chessplus but okay.
Chessminus
@@Ryan-hf4pe Chessmulitply Chessdivide.... I think one or both wouldn't make sense unless there is a way
@Zero chess That's fine?
@Zero chess it's fine (not that I would any attention [if somehow backfire me I want to curse the luck in draw] but if you want to then do it if not then dont)
how about chessehc
So the strat might be to fianchetto-combine the bishop and the pawn on the first move, then combine the queen with the knight, then the combine fianchetto-bishop with the rook.
Do the fianchetto-combine on the other side and now you have 2 queens and queenzilla.
"Queenzilla"? Don't you mean Freddie Mercury?
You mean 4 Queens & 2 Queenzillas?
They gotta add this mod as an actual mode in the next dlc
Whenever that comes
No dlc but we got a major update and also 3 man 5D Hexagonal Progressive Tic Tac Strato Martian Cannibal Solitare Viking Monster Atomic Diplomat Unbound Bughouse Penultima Giveaway of War without Stress Horde Benedict Checkers Chessplus with Multiverse Time Travel with your Kids of the Hill has better graphics now
Maybe in like, say, 3 million years?
now wait for chess minus
Played with half a board, 4 pawns, 1 rook, knight and bishop each and no queen.
@@boiledicetea Alien chess. 4 players, 64 spaces, 12 pawns, 12 rooks, and 12 queens. If you move a piece to another person's sector, it becomes their piece. player to capture the most points (traditional method of capture, with each having a point value) wins
@@boiledicetea sooo you cant promote to a queen?
@@mateuszszulecki5206 yes
its called checkers
You should be able to En Passant a combined pawn+bishop or pawn+knight, since the move they made had to be a "pawn move"!
Just en passent everyone with a pawn attached whose move was the en passentable one
Finally, some good DLC for Chess, I'm glad the game won goty and for that reason the decided to work on Chess +, revisiting this classic, we need more dlc for Chess 2, 3, 4 and 5D with time travel.
Pawn + Knight = Knight riding a more obedient horse
Pawn + Bishop = Slightly impure bishop
Pawn + Rook = Rook with Sweeping Edge sword
Pawn + Queen = Queen
Knight + Bishop = Extremely impure bishop
Knight + Rook = Rook with a Whip
Knight + Queen = Literally God himself
Bishop + Rook = Queen
Bishop + Queen = Queen
Rook + Queen = Queen
Queen + pawn is a queen cloner
Pawn+Pawn= double promotion
Pawn+Rook or Queen = an extra queen
Fun + chaos = 3 man 5D Hexagonal Progressive Tic Tac Strato Martian Cannibal Solitare Viking Monster Atomic Diplomat Unbound Bughouse Penultima Giveaway of War without Stress Horde Benedict Checkers Chessplus with Multiverse Time Travel with your Kids of the Hill
Rook+pawn: automatic promotion
@@hamster8706 I think that actually means the queen is cheating on the king with a pawn, resulting in princesses.
It's actually a really interesting concept but i think that the promotion thing could be too op, considering that reaching the back rank would be extremely easy with any pawn combination
It just means different things are differently important. Getting a pawn into an empty file is now something to prevent your opponent from doing more actively, etc.
Plus you’d have to pause before the full promotion, if you don’t wanna lose the other piece
“you cannot en passant a joined piece unless the joined pieces are both pawn”
r/anarchychess did not like that
Pipi
@@cyruscheng499 are you kidding me!!!
@@cyruscheng499 s
Be grateful we can at least en passant in this variation, anarchychess.
“Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make WEAK PAWNS STRONGER”
Every combined piece ever: STRONGER THAN YOU
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@@Misitan based
"You are not allowed to combine your pieces with your opponent's pieces"
Sora & Shiro : Established a resistance power, consisting of white & black pieces whom against the war between them for ages.
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Ok. That's Just Fire Emblem pair up mechanic applied to normal Chess... That's marvelous
sadly, both units die instead of getting a dual guard
Wait a moment, The queen + rook or pawn = ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT CHANGES
queen + anything except knight = nothing changes
@@kemcolian2001 Expect the Queen can carry the pawn and split in 7th rank, to get easy second Queen.
q+r allows "2" piece movements per turn
and q+r can split, attacking some square but not leaving previous rank/column unguarded at the same time
There is a reason to do this, for example if a piece is trapped, by fusing the pieces you get out of that situation
I'm assuming that if you combine queen and pawn it can take en passant
you can literally combine a queen with a knight in 2 moves, which is insanely op
Honestly bishop + knight is a really interesting combination, recommend it for everyone :D
You can change square colors ASAP. Beneficial if you want to attack that rook on a black square but no bishop move can get you on a black square within diagonal range.
literally everyone will open with 1. Nc3 Nc6 2. Nd1 Nd8 because queen-knight is so overpowered lol
Just to be fancy I would play Qc2, Qb1
So I just gotta say it the quight, queen night, would effectively have a 5x5 danger zone where it could attack any price meaning it can attack a total area of 34 spaces or over half the standard 8x8 board at all times
knight*
Can you move a piece combined with a pawn to the first row? If so, I assume that it can only move one square as a pawn since it isn't on its original row. This wasn't explained in the video.
You can cuz if you couldn't, you could not enpassant two joint pawns
There's no way you could en passant anyway, since you can't move two pawns sideways to merge them in order to do a double move next turn.
The trouble you would have to go through to get a pawn-pawn on the second rank so it can move two steps at once as a double pawn, only to allow the opponent to capture it en passant is just madness. Why would you even do that.
Can pieces combine with pawns? Also, cool channel but I'd like to see an example game of each variant :)
Yes they can
0:13 i like that “is designed to be able to combine”
Queen and Knight would be so OP
That's super expensive
That costs you 12 points for capture
getting discount queens with tower + bishop sounds like a better strat
I found this game to be soooo versatile! There is so much depth when two pieces can occupy the same square and potentially move elsewhere. And the balanced dynamic between combining pieces to make them more powerful at the cost of few pieces.
- You can fianchetto without have to move the b/g pawns
- Queens can create Mate-in-1 battery threats very easily
- A rook+bishop combo is actually better than a queen BECAUSE you can threaten/attack squares while retaining control of certain squares with the other piece that didn't move
Imagine Grandmasters finding out you can combine the queen and the knight
So this is chess but queens can jump
😱😵🤪😧
so this is chess but both players move their queenside knight 2 forward and 1 towards the queen then 2 backward and 1 towards the queen
fun fact queen + knight control a 5x5 square around the queen
I know
Dang, finally chess got a new update after all these years
knight + queen = GOD PIECE
id love me a double-headed knight please
That's called a hydra and moves in ring shape
Finally, Chess 2
Child: Mom i want queen
Mom: No, We have queen at home,
*Queen at home* 0:52
Can combined knights move over allied pieces with the movement from the other piece?
no
3 combinations are related to chess variant pieces: that of which being:
Queen + Knight = Amazon
Bishop + Knight = Archbishop
Rook + Knight = Chancellor
Also, I think it’s recommended to get your minor pieces combine with a pawn to buff them
imagine Chessplus but you can combine your piece with your opponents piece.
Maybe love can bloom on the battlefield
I dont see it working
4 player merge chess.
Combine a white and black horsie and make a zebra.
Look up Paco Šako
Also you can use the chancellor(r + n) and the archbishop(b + n) too!
...and these pieces are in Capablanca chess!
So I can do infinite en passant with the same pawn?
FINALLY, A TUTORIAL FOR A GAME I HAVE
If you combine a knight and a queen,then you have the power of all the pieces
Pawn promotion🗿
havent played this but queen/knight pawn/knight and bishop/rook would probably be the meta combos
rook-pawn is also good as on an empty board R+P?7/2 ?8/1=Q is op
alright, i know what en passant is, but the way it's described here makes no sense
first, it makes it sound like you can only en passant if the piece you en passant is a pawn-pawn combo, and not just a half pawn
if that's the case, then how do you legally combine two pawns but still move out two
You are not allowed to en pasant A COMBINED PIECE that contains a non-pawn piece, never says you can't a normal pawn.
0:59 so basically a queen
2:05 that sucks, what am i supposed to do when i want to promote to a knight? just take the stalemate and lose?
Combining pieces should be marked with a c (For example, if a rook on e3 and a bishop is on g5, and the bishop combines with the rook, it should be called BRce3 in algebraic notation), splitting pieces should be marked with an s (Rook-Bishop on e5 splits into Rook on e5 bishop on g7, should be called BRsg7), capturing combined pieces should be marked with xx (Rook captures Knight-Pawn on h7 would be Rxxh7), a combo like Knight-Rook should be “NR”
1:06 so basically you can have 1 real queen and two fake ones
and 10 more because pawns
@@Misitan8
Rook+bishop=queen deluxe
Rook+pawn=free queen
Bishop+pawn=square changing bishop
Queen+knight=a piece that can checkmate all by themselves
rook + bishop = BISHOOK!
No. It's a cheap Queen.
Trying to name the fusions (reply with any suggestions!)
Two of the same piece: (Shares the same name since they're...well, two of the same piece)
Pawn + Bishop: Pastor
Pawn + Knight: ???
Pawn + Rook: ???
Pawn + Queen: ???
Bishop + Knight: Archbishop
Bishop + Rook: Princess
Knight + Rook: Chancellor
Queen + Bishop: ???
Queen + Rook: ???
Queen + Knight: Amazon
Pawn + Knight: Wagon
Pawn + Rook: Smuggler
Pawn + Queen: Strider
very disapointed that combining the same piece doesn't utlra boost them or something
Probably it's the same concept of "you can't promote a pawn to a pawn"
you can play as that way, there's nothing stopping you
This is one of my favorite variants! First 3 moves: quen pawn, move the bishop somewhere, then combine knight and queen. Combine knight and rook on the other side, and let the games truly begin😈
I remember playing something kind of like this with my brother using a magnetic chess set, the magnets could hold the pieces together. You combined with an opponents piece when you took it. I remember queen-knight was pretty OP
Omg genius idea is easy to do. The combine always removed when attacked also the pawn regains the initial 2 move is very handy. And en pusant is a weird move in regular so now ????? It as casos as a blender thrown into a shredder at the scrap yard
Nice checkmate at the end!
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What?
Fire Emblem called. They want their pair up mechanic back.
How I call the combined pieces (different halves):
• Pawn + Bishop = Princess.
• Pawn + Knight = Prince.
• Pawn + Rock = ?.
• Pawn + Queen = ?.
• Bishop + Knight = Dragon.
• Bishop + Rock = Queen Mimic.
• Bishop + Queen = ?.
• Knight + Rock = Chancellor.
• Knight + Queen = Ultimate.
• Rock + Queen = ?.
YOU CAN MAKE A KNOOK
This is a better take on the age-old chess variation that allows pieces to gain the movements of those they capture.
Queen: You’re weak.
Rook + Bishop Combo: I’m you.
Edit: Wait, if you combine make 2 Rook+Bishop combos and your queen is still alive, you can have 3 queens? This game is broken
AcTuAlLy
In normal chess you could have 9 queens so it's discussably more "broken",
In this version, you could have 11 at the same time
@@Essutos If there were extras queens in the normal chess version..... (but then again.... is the King cheating? Jk joking)
pawns merging is would be a neat way to promote multiple pawns, just split them before they promote to get 2 queens
Knight + Queen would be undefeatable
Ya
You can still promote to any piece you want right?
As you said it, it sounded as though you can only promote to a queen
Honestly, you should be able to combine with another color to make a piece that is able to be controlled by 2 people. Could lead to interesting strats.
Amagansett combining this with another modified chess game
Kid: Can we have 'Queen'?
Mom: We have 'Queen' at home.
'Queen' at home: *Combined Rook and Bishop*
I very much love the idea that you can uber you pawns to the enemy back rank to make a queen
Is it even a rule that a bishop starting on a black square has to stay on black squares for the rest of the game? It caught me really offguard that you specifically pointed out that bishops are allowed to move to other colors via combination.
Obviously bishops can't switch colors in regular chess, but that's a consequence of its movement, not a game rule.
I think it was supposed to be common sense, he just pointed it out as a consequence of the merging mechanism
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Looks like bob from fnf not gonna lie 0:34
There is another commercial variant of chess invented by Dutch artist Felix Albers, called Paco Šako (Peace Chess in Esperanto), in which pieces can merge together. However, only opposing pieces can be joined together. This is called a union, which can be formed by the move that would cause a capture in traditional chess. However, during the game no pieces are captured and so none are removed from the board. Unions can move as whole according to the move options of the owner's piece in that union. The only way to free a piece from a union is to play another separate piece of your own color towards that union, which then takes the place of the piece that is freed. The freed piece must then move to either an empty square, a square with a separate opposing piece (creating a new union), or a square with a union on it, freeing yet another piece that must then move as well (this is called a chain). En passant unifying is allowed, as well as castling with a rook in a union, as long as the rook in question has not been moved. Pawns in unions are promoted into a piece that takes their place when reaching the last row, and this also happens when the opponent's move of the union causes the pawn to reach the last row. A pawn can land on the player's first row if it's part of a union that is moved by the opponent, and pawns on the first row have the same initial move options as pawns on the second row (en passant unifying applies the same way here as well). Announcing šako (equivalent of check) is not mandatory and the king doesn't have to avoid moving into, through or out of šako, except when castling, which is when it's not allowed. Goal of the game is to unite one of your pieces with the opponent's king.
Paco Sako is coming soon :)
@@TripleSGames That's good to know. The game is not as well known as it deserves to be.
A few other commercial variants to consider are Knightmare Chess (kind of chess meets Magic: The Gathering), Raindrop Chess (chess with a luck factor in the form of cards as well as a dropping mechanic) and Omega Chess/Omega Chess Advanced (an expanded variation of traditional chess with a few new types of pieces.
Omega Chess (basic mode) is a variant played on a 10×10 board with 4 extra squares extending the two longest diagonals with one extra square on each end (they're diagonally adjacent to the corner squares of the 10×10 board. The traditional pieces start in the same kind of position in the first two rows as in normal chess, counting from the center of the row towards the corner. This results in an additional square next to the rooks, on which each of the 2 pieces of the first type, the champion, is placed. The squares in front of the champion will be occupied by extra pawns. The 2 extra squares diagonally adjacent to the champions (on the same side of the board) will be occupied by the 2 pieces of the second new type, the wizard.
The game is played the same way as in standard chess, with the following changes:
- Pawns move as like in normal chess, but can move 1, 2 or 3 squares forward on their first move. En passant capture can be done according to the normal rules, but in addition to from the fourth row it can also be done from the fifth row; any pawn moving more than one square on the first move can be captured en passant if the opposing pawn is 'passed' this way (i.e. a pawn that moves 3 squares forward on the first move can be captured en passant by an opposing pawn on either the fourth or fifth row.
- The champion can jump/capture 2 squares in any direction (octogonally), or move/capture one square orthogonally.
-The wizard can either jump/capture in a 3-1 squares L-shape similar to the knight, or move/capture 1 square diagonally.
Omega Chess Advanced adds 3 elements to the basic mode, but I don't know them in detail. First, the knight is used, but is now a templar knight, a piece that either jumps/captures like a regular knight, or jumps (without the option to capture) in a 3-2 L shape. Second, a new piece, the fool, starts off the board and can be deployed during the first 20 moves. When it moves, it basically mimics the moves of the last opposing piece moved and immobilizes opposing pieces adjacent to it. And third, an optional move rule called 'guarding' can be added to the game. Guarding is essentially the same as castling with the same conditions, but it is done with the queen instead of the king, and the queen is not restricted by such things as moving through, into or out of check (squares between the queen and rook still must be empty, though).
The goal of the game in both modes is still the same: checkmate the opposing king.
The interesting thing in this game is that cerain endgames work out a little differently due to the extra 4 squares in the corners of the board. For example, a queen can mate a king without her own king's help. A single rook is significantly weaker against a lone king, because it can't mate him on the extra squares, so the king will try to hide there. Mate with 2 knights and a king against a lone king seems to be possible now, which it is not in regular chess (unless the opponent plays like the king is suicidal). Knight, bishop and king against king can be considered impossible, because the king can hide on the extra square not belonging to the bishops color quite easily, while the help of the assisting king isn't enough to drive him away from that corner, unlike in normal chess. 2 bishops and king against king seems easier here than in normal chess. The extra squares change quite bit of the tactics in the endgame.
But how would you combine one of your pawns to a piece? Do they move the way they attack, or only their forward moves?
Also feels like en passant should be allowed, it's your own fault if you let your Knight+pawn get captured. Or at least en passant should at least remove the pawn half.
What if a combined pawn promotes}
That combined bishop and knight check mating the king at the end looks disgusting, because you can't normally do it with only one piece.
Thats the point 😋
Is there any sort of benefit to combining two of the same piece?
Avoiding space problems
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You can ladder-mate with 2 rooks combined.
Is it a checkmate if a rook or bishop ,queen skewers half of king and another half of king or any piece forks half of king and another half
1:28 how did I understand that?
Why can't a pawn in this variation promote to a lesser piece (knight, bishop, rook)?
The chess update we've been waiting for
I've seen this exact game over 10 years ago on chessvariants and pathguy under the name Fusion Chess.
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That's actually pretty cool, I don't usually like the meme it's this but different games.
is a combind pies +a pawn alowed to move to the 1st colem
what happens if you combine 2 of the same piece? does it get double movement or is it just wasted?