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Cost Progressive Chess

By Sergey Sirotkin

Introduction

Cost Progressive Chess is a form of progressive Chess where each piece requires a specified number of movement points to move, and each turn the amount of movement points a player has to move with increases.

Board and Setup

The equipment and initial arrangement as in orthodox chess.

Rules

The game is conducted by rules of International Chess with the following changes:

Pieces Cost
Pawn 1
Knight  3
Bishop 3
Rook 5
Queen 9
King 2
# Possible combinations of piece's move
1. (p)
2. (2p) or (K)
3. (3p) or (K) or (p+K) or (N) or (B)
4. (4p) or (2p+K) or (p+N) or (p+B)
5. (5p) or (3p+K) or (2p+N) or (2p+B) or (K+N) or (K+B)
5+. etc.

Variants

1. Simple Cost Progressive Chess.

It is possible to use a simple cost scale for pieces: Pawn - 1, Knight - 2, Bishop - 3, Rook - 4, Queen - 5, King - 1.
The game will develop more dynamically than with the movement point costs first given.
It is possible to use any other scale of values.

2. Fibonacci Cost Progressive Chess.

There are other ways of determining the number of movement points a player receives in a turn. For example - the number of movement points received each turn is the next number in theFibonacci sequence. In this particular variant, white and black do not receive the same number of movement points in a turn:
 
# Movement points per player Possible combinations of pieces moved
1. W and B - 1 p
2. W - 2 (2p) or (K)
B - 3 (3p) or (2p+K) or (N) or (B)
3. W - 5 (5p) or (3p+K) or (2p+N) or (2p+B) or (K+N) or (K+B)
B - 8 (8p) or (6p+K) or (5p+N) or (5p+B) or (K+2N) or (K+2B) or (2p+N+B) or (3p+R) or ... etc.

3. Perfect Cost Progressive Chess.

It is possible the above rules in a game, where there are all probable combinations of standard pieces, such as Perfect Chess by Köksal Karakus or Chess 2000 by Gerhard Josten.
It would be necessary to calculate relative cost of the additional pieces.
And it would be interesting to try to combine in such a game all the given variations.

Written by Sergey Sirotkin. Prepared for posting by Peter Aronson.
WWW page created: March 25, 2001. Prepared May 2nd, 2001.