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Spider-Chess

 
By Gerd P. Degens

The game requires a board with 19 ranks and 25 files. 
Each player has 46 pieces and 2 x 5 spiders on top - a total of 56 pieces.

Spiders have their bases in the corners of the board - 5 spiders in each corner.
Only the spiders can return to the bases once they have left them - to their own or to opposing ones; if opposing spiders are gathered in a corner, they can fight each other. 

Other pieces on the inner playing area cannot reach the spider bases. Own bases are therefore a 'safe harbor' for them.
 

Setup

Pieces

Standard set of pieces - plus additional pieces. Details in the rule section.

Rules

There is no capturing en passant and no castling. Promotion of pawns takes place.
Bare king loses.
Stalemate is a win.
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Pieces

The Pawn (Spider Chess) moves as follows:

The pawn moves one, two or three squares forward and captures opposing pieces. Diagonally, the pawn can move one square forward without capturing. It does not jump over pieces.

 

The Spider (Spider Chess) moves as follows:

 

The archbishop is a hybrid piece of knight and bishop.

 

The chancellor is a hybrid piece of knight and rook.

 

The amazon is a hybrid piece of knight and queen.

 

The cardinalrider is a hybrid piece of knightrider and bishop.
(The knightrider can perform the move of a knight once or several times in sequence. A piece on a target square cannot be jumped over.)

 

The chancellorrider is a hybrid piece of knightrider and rook:



The amazonrider is a hybrid piece of knightrider and queen:

 

The king can move to an adjoining square.

Notes

Play it !

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By Gerd P. Degens.

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Web page created: 2024-04-11. Web page last updated: 2024-08-22

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