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Capablanca Chess
Capablanca Chess
by (Web published), Musketeer Chess
Player Count
2
Categories
  • Abstract Strategy
  • Designers
  • José Raúl Capablanca
  • Mechanisms
  • Grid Movement
  • Family
  • Chess Games
  • Combinatorial
  • Player Count: Two Player Only Games
  • Components: 8 x 10 Grids
  • Digital Implementations: Ai Ai
  • Rating: 5.67/10 from 12 users

    Description

    From Wikipedia:
    Capablanca Chess is a chess variant played on a 10x8 board. The game is named after its inventor, the former world chess champion, José Raúl Capablanca. Capablanca thought that chess would be played out in a few decades, that games between chess grandmasters would always end in a draw. This danger of "draw death" was a main motivation for him to create a more complex and rich version of chess.

    Besides the usual set of chess pieces, each player has additionally two new pieces with corresponding pawns:
    Chancellor: a chancellor combines the moves of a Rook or a Knight; Archbishop: an archbishop combines moves of a Bishop and a Knight.

    The new pieces have properties that enrich the game. For example, the archbishop can checkmate a bare king by itself (king in a corner, archbishop placed diagonally with one square in between). Capablanca thought that adding these two powerful pieces would reduce the likelihood of a draw and make the game itself more interesting.

    You can play Capablanca Chess online on Jocly website:
    https://www.jocly.com/

    Other Sister Chess variants are:
    Bird's Chess, Seirawan Chess, Musketeer Chess, Carrera Chess, Gothic Chess, Janus Chess
    http://www.musketeerchess.net/

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