Marseillais chess (also called Double-Move chess) is a

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in which each player moves twice per turn. The rules of the game were first published in

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local newspaper ''Le Soleil'' in 1925. The variant became quite popular in the late 1930s with such chess grandmasters as

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, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, and André Chéron playing it.Marseillais Chess
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Rules

A player can either move one piece twice or move two different pieces on their turn.

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is considered a single move. When a player gives check on the first move, they lose the second move of their turn. If a player is in check, they must move out of check on the first move of the turn. It is not allowed to move the

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into check on the first move of a turn and then move out of check on the second. ''

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 pa ...

'' capture is allowed even if the opponent moved the corresponding

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on the first move of their turn. Capturing ''en passant'', however, must be done on the first move of the turn. When ''two'' pawns can be captured ''en passant'', both can be captured in the turn. To ensure

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's advantage of moving first is not excessive, usually a "balanced" version of the game is played. In the balanced version, White makes only ''one'' move on the first turn. The moves are made in the following order: ''White, Black, Black, White, White, Black, Black,'' and so on. This rule was introduced in 1963 by Robert Bruce and has gained wide acceptance since then.

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Rules

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