


Los Alamos chess (or Anti-Clerical chess): Played on a 6×6 board without bishops.In one example, when using "Converse's rules," the pieces and their relative starting positions are unchanged-only the board is infinitely large. Infinite chess: Numerous players and mathematicians have conceived of chess variations played on an unbounded chessboard.For a move to be legal, it must cross at least one of these lines. Grid chess: The board is overlaid with a grid of lines.Only certain pieces can move to and from the additional level. Flying chess: Played on a board of 8×8×2, giving a total of 128 cells.Each player plays with two complete sets of chess pieces. Doublewide chess: Two regular chessboards are connected for a 16×8 play surface.Capablanca found the game "remarkably interesting". Pawns advance up to four steps on their first move.
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Pawns promote on the third and tenth ranks. Chess on a 12 by 12 board: Played on a 12×12 board.Full armies for each player, minus one pawn. Balbo's Game: A novel-shaped board with 70 squares.Kuzmichov (1989), whose students tested the game, deciding that the optimal starting position was to place the second queen on the eighth or ninth files. Active Chess: Played on a 9×8 board, adding a queen with an extra pawn in front.The movement of pieces in some variants is modified in concurrence with the geometry of the gameboard. In these variants, the same pieces and rules as in chess are used, but the board is different It can be smaller or larger, the shape of either the board or individual spaces can be non-square or modular, or it can even be extra-dimensional or unbounded.
