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chess variant A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways. "International" or "Western" chess itself is one of a family of games which have related origins and could be co ...
invented by Robert Montay-Marsais in 1972. The game is played on a 10×10
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with all the standard
chess pieces A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with si ...
present, and in addition, two nuclea pieces (representing nuclear missiles) and two extra pawns per side. The game brings the concept of modern warfare weaponry to
chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
.


Game rules

The starting setup is as shown. The standard conventions of chess apply, including normal
castling Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over. Castling is permitted only if neither the king nor the rook has previously moved ...
and ''
en passant ''En passant'' (, "in passing") is a method of capturing in chess that occurs when a pawn captures a horizontally adjacent enemy pawn that has just made an initial two-square advance. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy paw ...
''. Pawns promote on the 9th (ranks 1 and 8 in the diagram), and may promote to missile. The missile moves and captures as a chess
king King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
: one step in any direction. It may be captured like any other piece.


Missile launches

A player can launch a missile at any time to any board square, occupied or not. The launched missile "destroys" (eliminates from play) all pieces (except kings, which are immune) of either colour on the target square, as well as on all immediately surrounding squares. The missile itself is also destroyed in the launch. Launching a missile constitutes a turn. There are two prerequisites for launching a missile: # A non-pawn piece must have been captured at some point prior in the game. # The missile cannot be under attack by an enemy piece at time of launch. Since a single-step move of the missile can be ambiguous to a launch of the missile, the player should announce his intention when moving.


See also

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Atomic Chess Atomic chess is a chess variant. Standard rules of chess apply, but all captures result in an "explosion" through which all surrounding white and black pieces other than pawns are removed from play. Some variations additionally remove rules concer ...
and Beirut Chess—other variants based on detonations


References

Bibliography * *


External links


Stratomic Chess
by Bo Leuf and revised by Jean-Louis Cazaux, ''
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Stratomic
a simple program by Ed Friedlander (
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