How to play
Transcendental Chess
Back rank is randomly determined, but on the first turn, a player can exchange two pieces.
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.
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 ChessEn 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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