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Zodiac Chess: initial position. As zodiac signs cannot be used as chess pieces in the Wikipedia template, inverted chess pieces have been used for five of the pieces, with Omega Chess icons for the last two signs. Notably, the crown (the king equivalent) is not present in the initial setup; it is depicted in this article by the Omega Chess fool.

What is this? this was originally me drafting an article about a chess variant i made up so i could ask what makes it less notable than other variants (and what makes a chess variant notable; some of them seem to be mostly sourced by Chess Variant Pages) but i realized that i would only be hurting my own argument here so i gave up, although it's preserved here because i put a little bit of effort into it

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what this header originally said: This is me writing a brief article to raise a question: what makes a chess variant notable? The Chess Variant Pages is often used as a source, but it's mostly self-published: in fact, this variant that I'm writing about will eventually have a page on CVP. (This isn't just a demonstration variant or anything, this is an idea I've had in my head for a while.)

actual lead below:

Zodiac Chess is a large chess variant invented by User:ChromaTK in 2022.[1] It is played on a 12×12 chessboard with 12 pieces (on the back rank) and 12 pawns (on the second rank) per player.

Game description

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The standard rules of chess apply except in the following cases:[1]

  • The game is played on a 12×12 board with the starting position shown at right.
  • An unmoved pawn can move one step, or up to the middle of the board (in the case of the 12×12 board, the sixth rank), or anything in between. Thus, 1.i6 is a legal opening move, and so are 1.i3, 1.i4, and 1.i5. Once it has moved for the first time, it can only make one step at a time. (In the case of an 8×8 board, this is exactly the same as in standard chess). Such a long initial pawn move allows the moving pawn to be captured en passant by an enemy pawn as if it had stopped on any one of the squares it had passed through.
  • There is no castling in Zodiac Chess. Rather, the crown (royal piece) is not initially on the board, and is placed on the square vacated by the first piece moved by each side.
  • The 50-move rule becomes at least a 75-move rule. Generally, if each of the board's dimensions is multiplied by n, the number of non-capturing or non-pawn moves allowable before draw claims become possible must also be multiplied by at least n.
  • Each piece, except pawns and the champion, is based on a zodiac sign. Their movements are given below using the Bex extension of Ralph Betza's "funny notation", but with * rather than a doubled letter indicating a rider. In physical play, seven of the pieces may be represented by pieces from mismatched chess sets. Each piece is represented here using an orthodox piece, an inverted orthodox piece, or an Omega Chess piece.[2]
  1. ^ a b c d e f Zodiac Chess at The Chess Variant Pages
  2. ^ Golden Age Chess on a Really Big Board at The Chess Variant Pages
  3. ^ 3D Chess on a Really Big Board at The Chess Variant Pages
  4. ^ Duniho, Fergus. "View: Chess on a Really Big Board on the Chess Variants Game Courier". play.chessvariants.com. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  5. ^ Duniho, Fergus. "Chess on a Really Big Board on the Chess Variants Game Courier". play.chessvariants.com. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  6. ^ "KBN vs K checkmate on nonstandard boards". Chess Stack Exchange. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  7. ^ Endgame statistics with fantasy pieces Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine by Dave McCooey, The Chess Variant Pages
  8. ^ Ideal Values and Practical Values (Part 6) by Ralph Betza, The Chess Variant Pages
  9. ^ The FD by Ralph Betza, The Chess Variant Pages
  10. ^ The contributions of Marc Bourzutschky to chess endgame knowledge, John Beasley (January 2015)

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