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Transcendental Chess : How To Play Transcendental Chess

Transcendental Chess : How To Play Transcendental Chess

Back rank is randomly determined, but on the first turn, a player can exchange two pieces.

How to play
Transcendental Chess

Back rank is randomly determined, but on the first turn, a player can exchange two pieces.

Transcendental Chess is a shuffle variant, such as

Starting Position

The home-rank is shuffled for both sets of pieces, the only condition being that the Bishops must start on different color squares.

One of 8,294,400 possible setups after a the initial randomised shuffle.
Board is interactive - make a move

The moves of the pieces remains the same as Standard Chess

Pawn promotion rules remains the same as Standard Chess.

Castling is not pemitted in Transcendental 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.

Some chess variants are currently playable live and all will soon be available to play as daily/correspondence chess.

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