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Tremendous Chess

Tremendous Chess is a large chess variant invented by Vadrya Pokshtya that is played on a 16×16 chessboard with 112 pieces per player and the starting position shown above.

Setup


No pawns, no castling, no promotion zone.
The goal is to checkmate the opponent's king.

 

Pieces

The chess pieces move and capture according to the rules of standard chess.
 

 

Rules

Tremendous Chess is played according to the rules of progressive chess, i.e. players, rather than just making one move per turn, play progressively longer series of moves. The game starts with White making one move, then Black makes two consecutive moves, White replies with three, Black makes four and so on. (The move number is equal to the number of moves in a series available to a player on that turn.) Series are continuous and there are no restrictions on individual moves in a series except for the following:

Notes

Tremendous Chess Blog, pdf with some strategy notes



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By Вадря Покштя.

Last revised by Ben Reiniger.


Web page created: 2022-12-25. Web page last updated: 2023-03-29