Grand Chess

Not to be confused with Grant Acedrex.
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Grand Chess starting setup. Marshals are on f2/f9; cardinals are on g2/g9.

Grand Chess is a large-board chess variant invented by Dutch games designer Christian Freeling in 1984.[1][2] It is played on a 10×10 board, with each side having two additional pawns and two new pieces: the marshal and the cardinal.

Grand Chess uses the same pieces as the earlier variant Capablanca chess, but differs in board size, start position, rules governing pawn moves and promotion, and castling.

A series of Grand Chess Cyber World Championship matches was sponsored by the Dutch game site Mindsports.[a] Grand Chess tournaments were held annually beginning in 1998 by the (now defunct) correspondence game club NOST.[b] Larry Kaufman has written that Grand Chess "really is an excellent game and deserves a bigger following".[3]

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.
  1. ^ Bodlaender, Hans; Brown, John William. "Christian Freeling's Grand Chess". The Chess Variant Pages. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  2. ^ Dylan Loeb McClain (2007-08-19). "Giraffes, Viziers and Wizards: Variations on the Old Game". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
  3. ^ Kaufman, Larry. "No Subject". Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. So Grand chess, despite its meager following, scores an amazing 6 1/4 out of 8 on my criteria, by far the best so far. It really is an excellent game and deserves a bigger following.


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