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Stratomic is a
Stratomic is a 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 board
Board or Boards may refer to:
Flat surface
* Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat
** Plank (wood)
** Cutting board
** Sounding board, of a musical instrument
* Cardboard (paper product)
* Paperboard
* Fiberboard
** Hardboard, a ty ...
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 normalcastling
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, whic