Chess with different armies This army includes a lot of leapers, but most of them have asymmetrical move patterns, with backward moves being restricted. The rooks, knights, bishops, and queen are replaced by the following pieces: The four armies described above were playtested by Ralph Betza and selected as the most balanced ones. There are other armies, invented by Betza and other people, some of which are presented here. In the initial version of the game there were 8 armies and in these armies the king moved differently from the king in the standard chess. Instead of normal pawns, fairy pawns could be selected,
Chess960 position is randomly determined and set up, subject to certain requirements. After setup, the game is played the same as standard chess in all respects, with the exception of castling from the different possible starting positions for king and rooks. White's pieces (not pawns) are placed randomly on the first rank, with two restrictions: Black's pieces are placed equal-and-opposite to White's pieces. (For example, if the white king is randomly determined to start on f1, then the black king is placed on f8.) Pawns are placed on the players' second as in standard chess. As in standard chess, each player