Shadow Chess
All the original rules for chess are the same including the additional rules for Shadow Chess.
By setting a piece as a Hero, the piece will have a unique ability to give an advantage to the owner. Each piece has its own ability, when used correctly it can help a lot during game. However only one piece can be set with hero settings, once the hero is dead the owner will no longer be able to use the special ability.
Hero Setting
Pawn: sacrifice to destroy all pieces on the row of the pawn horizontally (must identify the hero pawn at start of game).
Bishop: ability to exchange itself with an additional piece as a sacrifice to save a piece that has just died during the last turn, the revived piece will then come back on the spot where the bishop was.
Rook: sacrifice a piece of the same colour to activate the rook special ability. Once activated the rook can act as a bishop attacking diagonally. A sacrifice must be presented every time the ability is used.
Horse: Freezes all eight squares around it for 3 turns (quick play can be activated right after the piece has been moved, 2 sacrifice required per each time ability is activated)
Queen: sacrifice a piece of your own to switch places with any piece of the same colour. A sacrifice must be presented for each time the queen activates its ability.
kinda and one more thing which i forgot to mention
Additional Rule
The king is immune to two shadow chess hero abilities, abilities including the Suicide pawn ability and Horse Freezing ability, which means that it won’t affect the king in any way. Other than that, all the other Shadow abilities can affect the king.
Originally posted by foilYes, and playing any form of chess where the pieces are not on their original squares and with special abilities can actually hamper ones chess ability.
The beauty of chess is that it is a simple game , allowing the players can focus on strategy and tactics, instead of rules .
Never try something like this or suicide chess or Fischer random chess.
Even playing a weak player without your own rook or queen is not advisable.
Chess, as is a beautiful game and better be played as is.
Hope I was not a spoil sport to this thread
Bye
Originally posted by PrashantI don't agree. Fischerandomchess are a good exercise for your strategical skill. You don't have to remeber lors of opening variations, just sit down and play real chess with only a different starting position.. and no theorical knowledge!
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Never try something like this or suicide chess or Fischer random chess.
lordste
Come on guys - it's a game! Remember chess as it's played now evolved very gradually over hundreds of years, and 2 moves for the pawn off its starting rank, en passant etc are fairly new... some of us like to keep it pure, others lik to mix it up - the point is to enjoy playing and keep improving!
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