How to play
Grand Chess
The Cardinal and Marshal pieces are introduced on a 10x10 board.
Starting Position
The Queen and King sit next to the Marshal and Cardinal.
Rooks hold the corners, whilst the rest of the home rank is inset one square.
Grand Chess adds a Marshal and a Cardinal, both of which combine the power of a Knight with another either a Rook or a Bishop.
Marshal
The Marshal moves as if a Rook and a Knight.
Moves like a Knight, which can also attack horizontally and vertically like a Rook.
Cardinal
The Cardinal moves as if a Bishop and a Knight
Moves like a Knight that can attack the diagonals too, like a Bishop.
Pawn Promotion
On reaching the eighth or ninth ranks, a pawn can choose to promote or continue as a pawn. Promotion is mandatory on the tenth rank.
A Pawn can only promote to a captured piece of the same color. If none are available (no non-pawn captures have taken place thus far) then the Pawn cannot proceed on to the tenth rank.
Castling
There is no Castling when playing Grand Chess.En passant rules remains the same as Standard Chess.
Check and Checkmate rules remain the same as Standard Chess.
Stalemate conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
Draw conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
Winning conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
Attribution
- Christian Freeling
Also Known As
Kaiser's GameSome chess variants are currently playable live and all will soon be available to play as daily/correspondence chess.
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