This en passant capture must be made in the immediate move following the double or triple step. From their second move, they have not this choice anymore and they move only one space.Įn Passant capture: Any time a Pawn takes a double or triple step and passes through the capture square of an opposing Pawn, that Pawn may capture the opposing piece as if it had moved to that capture square. Initial Pawn move: Pawns which have not moved yet, may move one, two, or three squares providing that crossed and arrival squares are free. The goal is to checkmate the opposing King. This is a well known piece from medieval Muslim great Chess like Tamerlane's Chess which is better known as the Camel. Note that it always stays on the same color of square.
No matter what intermediate squares contain. The Sage is a (3,1) jumper, it jumps to the opposite square of a 2x4 rectangle, like an extended Knight. Pawns moves and captures as in chess except for their initial moves and they have a different promotion rule which is detailed below. Kings and Rooks also except for the castling which is different at Devingt Chess. Queens, Bishops and Knights are exactly as at standard chess. The Queen is placed on the central square of the first row of her color.
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The Sage can be seen as a wise camel drivers and is represented by a camel on the diagrams. The board has 10x10 squares and is placed with a white square at each player's right corner.Įach side has 10 pawns and 10 pieces: 1 King, 1 Queen, 2 Sages, 2 Bishops, 2 Knights and 2 Rooks. The name of the game in French is "Le jeu du Devingt" and is a pun referring to "vingt" (twenty) which is the number of men on each side, and phonetically "devin" which means a fortune teller. It is played over a 10x10 squares board, which is easily available in some countries to play International draughts. Actual boards and sets are manufactured by the inventor. Devingt Chessĭevingt Chess is a variant invented (2005) and commercialised by Leopold de Labrousse. Check out Cylindrical Chess, our featured variant for March, 2023.
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