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Schachen

Chess without a board in 30 minutes

As is to be expected with such a subtitle, the chess rules had to be somewhat changed for this game, which in turn makes possible new and interesting strategies. As in Chess you must checkmate the opposing king, but you need not be familiar with the standard chess rules, the movement of the pieces is explained in the rules.

Each player holds tiles for one King, one Queen, two Rooks, Two Knights, two Bishops and eight Pawns, corresponding to the pieces in a standard chess game. You start with a display made up from King and four Pawns, the remaining tiles are shuffled face down and stacked, you take up three of them. First, you must move a piece according to the rules and then you can enter a piece from your hand to the board and draw a piece from the stack. For moving a piece there are slightly different rules, there is no castling and the king can only move backwards, if he captures a piece, but the board itself is virtual and unlimited. To capture a piece you can enter any space, otherwise you can only move a piece to an empty spot that is adjacent to another piece, be it yours or the opponent’s. To enter a piece you place a Pawn on an empty square to the left or right to another of your pawns, any other piece can only be entered directly behind your own pawn. You cannot protect the king from check by entering a piece.

With very simple means Schachen offers an unusual version, which strongly differs from other versions due to the unlimited board.

Abstract placement game for 2 players, ages 6+

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Stock #: 15396 8

Players: 2

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Heinrich Glumpler, Matthias Schmidt

Art: Carsten Fuhrmann

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Mücke Spiele 2011

Web: www.muecke_spiele.de

Genre: Chess variant

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Compact edition

Unusual due to virtual board

Knowledge of Chess rules not mandatory

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Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0