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Herb garden chess. Variant on 7 by 12 board with additional combination pieces. (12x7, Cells: 84) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

William Overington wrote on Sun, Sep 29, 2002 10:29 AM UTC:

Here is a change to the rules of Herb garden chess.

It is as a result of a similar change to the rules of Tree garden chess. 
There are some notes in the discussion about Tree garden chess which
explain the reasons for the rule change.

So, delete the following from the rules.

Each side may only use castling, championing or centauring once in any
one game and provided that the king has not been checked at any previous
time in that game and provided that both the king and the participating
piece have not moved previously during the game. 

Add the following to the rules in the place from where the above was
deleted.

Each side may only use castling, championing or centauring once in any
one game and provided that both the king and the participating piece
have not moved previously during the game.  Castling, championing and
centauring may only take place if the king is not in check at the start
of the process, does not pass across a square which is under attack and
does not end upon a square which is under attack.  If a king has been
previously checked in a game, the fact of that king having been
previously checked in the game does not prevent castling, championing
or centauring taking place.