Recharged Chess

By Gerd P. Degens

The game is played on a 9 x 9 board. Each player has 27 pieces. Eight of these are pawns on the base line, which are upgraded ('recharged') on ranks 2 or 8.

Setup

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Pieces

Standard set of pieces plus additional pieces - see below for details.

Rules

With the exception of the following, the FIDE rules apply.
There is no capturing en passant, bare king loses, stalemate is a win.

Pawns on the baselines are upgraded ('recharged') on ranks 2 and 8 depending on the move direction (left, forward or right) as follows:

Upon reaching the 2nd or the 8th rank, a Pawn promotes to the piece that started on that space.

That means, that a pawn coming from the files:

a and i become either chancellorrider or zecari pieces,
b and h become chancellorrider, zecari or nightrider pieces,
c and g mutate to zecari, nightrider or cardinalrider pieces and
d and f can upgrade to nightrider, cardinalrider or amazonrider pieces.

However, it is still possible to skip promotion ranks 2 and 8 and continue as a pawn on ranks 3 and 7 - even if this rarely happens.

The following applies to a white pawn on rank 7:
It can either reach rank 8 and be upgraded there according to the above rule, or it goes to rank 9 and can decide there whether it becomes one of the following pieces: amazonrider, nightrider, cardinalrider chancellorrider or zecari. This also means that a pawn move from e6/e7 to e8 results in an amazonrider (applies vice versa for black).

The pieces move as follows:

	pawn	steps one square diagonally forward to an empty square, or straight ahead, or slides to the 2nd square straight ahead
	amazonrider	slides in all 8 directions, or repeatedly makes a knight's jump in the same direction
	nightrider	repeatedly makes a knight's jump in the same direction
	cardinalrider	slides diagonally, or repeatedly makes a knight's jump in the same direction
	chancellorrider	slides orthogonally, or repeatedly makes a knight's jump in the same direction
	zecari	repeatedly makes a (3,2) leap in the same direction, or repeatedly makes a (3,1) leap in the same direction
	king	steps one square in all 8 directions, or castles by stepping 3 squares towards the pawn

Notes

Recharged Chess on Game Courier

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By Gerd P. Degens.

Last revised by Gerd Degens.

Web page created: 2024-10-30. Web page last updated: 2024-10-30