First and foremost the "pawn moves" need to be understood. Your partner is opposite you and your 2 opponents are on your left and right. As in Chess, each pawn can move directly forward and capture pieces diagonally forward. On a pawn's initial move it can move 1 square forward OR it can move up to the square that is immediately below the double demarcation lines (for the two pawns on the extreme left and on the extreme right the initial move is only one square).
Now, consider just the right half of your portion of the game board. Later if a Pawn moves inside
a square with double demarcation lines or to the right hand side of such a square then the forward direction of the pawn
changes 90 degrees to the right and now the pawn is directed towards his opponent on
the right and continues to capture opponent pieces on the diagonal. Similar rules apply to the pawns
on the left half of the game board . . so that these Pawns can be directed towards the opponent on
the left.
Note: New players immediately understand and adopt this "change of direction
rule for pawns" . . . no problem . .
To Sum Up:
A Pawn's "moves" & "captures" follow Traditional Chess rules, except for
(1) optional 1st move & (2) change in forward direction.
Note: Power Pieces move according to Traditional Chess rules. The increased size of the playing surface makes the Knight the weakest piece. So ... the Exception is with the Knight... players can choose to adopt an alternate rule at the start of the game. © January 1993-2005
These "Basics" above tend to confirm what many CHESSapeak players have discovered:
"Truly this is Traditional Chess". . this is a 4 Player Traditional
chess that works and is fun to play!
On this web site is the true story of students playing & training on the
4 player partnership Chess . . CHESSapeak Challenge® and
winning their region's Chess Tournament (2 player traditional chess). Four of these
students were declared "the Tournament's best".
Their chess teacher had also structured his class room math curricula
and his class room science curricula around CHESSapeak
Challenge® 4 player partnership chess. His students successes
in these structured class room courses has resulted in many requests from other teachers for his "curricula
outlines" (math and science courses).
3 Major Accomplishments are Apparent:
· Social (group) enjoyment by playing Traditional chess as 4 player partnership.
· The means for children & adult chess players to improve
their 2 player traditional chess skills ... play and train
on 4 player partnership CHESSapeak Challenge®.
· Education Professionals please take a good look at this :
~ students' interest enhanced in math and science class room courses that should result in improvement of their
capabilities in these subjects.
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