Grand Chess. Initial position. The marshall and the cardinal are at right of the king.

Grand chess is a large chess variant invented by Dutch games designer Christian Freeling in 1984 and is considered by many to be one of the very best of its type. It is played on a 10 x 10 board and has four additional pawns and two new pieces: the marshall and the cardinal. Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links Chess_z10ver_26. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... Image File history File links This image is used in the standard chess diagram template. ... 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• The marshall moves as both a rook and a knight.
• The cardinal moves as both a bishop and a knight.

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Rules

The White pieces are set up on the first and second ranks as shown on the diagram. The White pawns are set up on the third rank. The White rooks alone are positioned on the first rank which makes it easier for them to get active earlier by not being as blocked by the other pieces as they are in standard chess. The Black rooks are symmetrically placed for the same advantage. Castling is not possible in this variant. Chess (Sanskrit: Chaturanga) is an abstract strategy board game and mental sport for two players. ...

The Black pieces are set up on the ninth and tenth ranks. The Black pawns are set up on the eighth rank.

The White pawns may elect to promote upon reaching the eighth or ninth rank, but must promote at the tenth. Unlike standard chess, promoting pawns can only be replaced by any previously captured piece of the same color (e.g. for either side to have two queens or two marshalls or three rooks, etc. is illegal). If no captured pieces are available to replace a White pawn upon its reaching the tenth rank, the pawn must stay on the ninth rank, but it can still give check. In games such as chess, shogi, and xiangqi, a check is an immediate threat to capture the king (or general in xiangqi). ...

The Black pawns promote optionally upon reaching the third and second ranks but must promote in order to move to the first rank. They can still give check to the White king on the first rank even if they can't yet legally move to the first rank.

Pawns can move one or two squares on their first move and can capture en passant.

Checkmate is a win and stalemate is a draw as in standard chess. Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess (and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family) in which one players king is under attack and there is no way to meet that threat; it is a check from which there is no escape. ... Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move has no legal moves but is not in check. ...

See also

• Capablanca chess
• Capablanca random chess
• Gothic chess

Capablanca chess. ... Capablanca random chess. ... Gothic Chess starting position Gothic Chess is a commercial chess variant, invented by Ed Trice and patented in 2002. ...

External links

• Christian Freeling's Grand chess by Hans L. Bodlaender.
• Grand chess introduction on Freeling's website, contains rules, problems and example games.
• BrainKing.com, internet server to play Grand chess online.
• 2001 World championship game, annotated by Wayne Schmittberger, the Grand chess world champion.
• Grand chess, The Yerevan Games, by Malcolm Horne, Variant Chess, Volume 3, Issue 24, Summer 1997, pages 71-72.
• Grand Chess | Material Values of Pieces