Modern chess is a chess variant played on a 9x9 board. The game was invented by Gabriel Vicente Maura in 1968.
Besides the usual set of chess pieces, each player has an additional piece with a corresponding pawn:
- a Prime Minister that moves as both a bishop and a knight.
Otherwise, the standard rules of chess still apply, with the objective being to checkmate the opponent's king. The king piece must be moved out of check when it is placed in check. If escape is not possible, the game is lost. A player still may resign at any point in the game, and en passant is legal.
Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or chess:
“A turning point in modern history.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don’t mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter’s behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.”
—Stella Chess (20th century)