Check out Symmetric Chess, our featured variant for March, 2024.

Item Index Information

See also | Other information | Associated images or text | Author/Inventor information | Comments |

Iron Guard Chess is a Zillions-of-Games file. It is categorized as: Two dimensional, In a category all its own, Each player has a different army. This item is located on a site outside of chessvariants.org.

Iron Guard ChessA Zillions-of-Games file
. Instead of a queen, white has an Iron Guard who can move only to adjacent diagonal squares and cannot be captured.

Author: Douglas Silfen.

Notes

Object: Checkmate the opponent's King by attacking it so it cannot escape. Instead of a queen, White has a guard who can move only to adjacent diagonal squares, but cannot be captured. Both sides have Iron Guards and no Queens in the 'Double Iron Guard' variant. To see a description of how a piece moves right-click on it to bring up its properties dialog.

Image(s)

Other Information

The board used for this game has 8 row(s), 8 column(s), 64 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.

Other Options

See Also

Index Maintenance

[edit] [links] [associate image] [associate text] [info] [quick edit]

Group ID 'IronGuard'