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:
“The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)