- This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Algebraic chess notation is used to record and describe the moves in a game of Chess.
Dice chess is a chess variant in which the moves available to each player are determined by rolling a pair of ordinary six-sided dice. A chess variant is a Game derived from related to or similar to Chess in at least one respect For other uses see either Die or Dice (disambiguation. Dice (the Plural of Die, from Old French Several different versions of dice chess are known, one of which is described here.
Rules
The players alternate rolling the dice and, if possible, moving. On each of the dice, the one represents a pawn, two a knight, three a bishop, four a rook, five a queen, and six a king. The pawn (♙♟ is the weakest and most numerous piece in the Game of Chess, representing Infantry The knight (♘ ♞ sometimes referred to by players as a 'horse' is a piece in the Game of Chess, representing a Knight (armoured cavalry A bishop (♗♝ is a piece in the Board game of Chess. Each player begins the game with two bishops A rook, (♖ ♜ borrowed from Persian رخ rokh, Sanskrit rath, "chariot" also known as a castle is a piece in the The queen (♕♛ is the most powerful piece in the game of Chess. In Chess, the King (♔ ♚ is the most important piece. The object of the game is to trap the opponent's king so that it would not be able to avoid capture The player may move either of the pieces indicated on the two dice. For example, a player rolling a one and a two may move either a pawn or a knight. A player who rolls doubles (the same number on both dice) may play any legal move. Otherwise, standard chess rules apply, with these exceptions:
- a player who has no legal move with either of the pieces indicated by the dice loses that turn;
- if castling is otherwise legal, a player may castle upon rolling a four, six, or doubles;
- an en passant capture of a pawn is possible only if the player rolls a one, or doubles, immediately once the opportunity for the en passant capture arises;
- a player who is in check can only play a legal response to that check (capturing the checking piece, moving the king, or interposing a piece);
- a player who is in check but does not make a roll allowing a legal response to the check loses that turn, but does not automatically lose the game;
- except in the unlikely event that the game ends in a draw pursuant to standard chess rules, the game ends when one player either checkmates the opponent or captures the opponent's king. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. Illustration Example in opening In this line from the Petrov Defence, White can capture the pawn on d5 en passant on his sixth move In Chess, a draw is one of the possible outcomes of a game the others being a win for white and a win for black Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in Chess (and in other Boardgames of the Chaturanga family in which one player's
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Sample game
Here is a sample game of dice chess. White rolls doubles, allowing her to play any move, and selects 1. e4. Black rolls a two and a three; no bishop move being possible, he plays 1. . . Nc6. White rolls a three and a four, and plays 2. Bc4. Black rolls a four and a five; since no queen move is possible, he must play the only legal rook move, 2. . . Rb8. White rolls a three and a six, and plays 3. Bxf7+. Black rolls a two and a four; since no knight or rook move is a legal response to the check, he must pass. (Only a six, or doubles, would have allowed him to move. ) White rolls a two and a four, and chooses 4. Nh3. (A three or five would have enabled an immediate win with 4. Bxe8, 4. Qf3# or 4. Qh5#). Black rolls a one and a three; again, this does not allow a legal response to the check, so he must pass. White rolls a two and a four, and plays 5. Ng5#. (See final position at right. )
Variants on these Rules
There is no standard set of rules for Dice Chess, and so games called 'Dice Chess' may have different rules to the ones given here.
For example, the 'dice chess' given on the BrainKing site [1]
- has players roll only 1 die.
- allows pawns to move to the last rank on any roll, but promote only to the piece shown on the die (a 1 allows a pawn to promote to any piece).
- does not have check or checkmate. Rather, the goal is to actually take the king.