Mayhem Chess
By Christina Ziolkowski
Introduction
This chess variant was developed for use with members of the Notre Dame School Chess Club in Kitchener, Ontario. (Paul DeWitte is the moderator and co-author of this page. - Ed.)
Board
The game uses the standard 8X8, 64-cell board.
Setup
The opening array is as follows:
Pieces
The rooks, knights, and queens move as they do in standard chess.
The restricted queen moves as a regular queen does, but may not move more than four squares orthogonally or diagonally.
The
paladin, according to the Piececlopedia, has knight + bishop moves.
The Janus pawn
advances as a regular pawn does, but may capture on the diagonal either forward
or backward.
Rules
A player wins by mating his opponents king.
Pawns promote.
Castling is not permitted. En passant captures are not legal.
Equipment
Standard chess equipment is used.
Credits