Mixed Doubles Chess
This idea is inspired by tennis and piano 4-hands. The concept is simply
team chess that requires one male player and one female player on each
side.
For the game to work well, all players should be of comparable strength at
chess.
Ladies first, so the first move is made by the woman player.
Mixed Doubles Chess uses a 10 X 10 board. This is the setup:
The front row consists of 10 Pawns. The second row features one Samurai
and one Princess. In the home row there are 3 Rooks, 2 Knights, 2 Bishops,
a Maharaja and a Maharani, and one Queen.
Players are free to give names to these pieces, for example Justinian and
Theodora for the Maharaja and Maharani, or Arthur and Guinevere,
Clovis (founder of the Merovingian Dynasty) and Clotilda, Ferdinand and
Isabella, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Henry Plantaganet and Eleanor
of Aquitaine, Chandragupta Maurya and a daughter of Seleucus, Cornelia,
or Seleucus and his Persian wife Apama, Shamshi-Adad V of Assyria and
Shammuramat (Semiramis), David and Bathsheba, or couples who are
more recent such as James Madison and Dolly Madison, Jean-Paul Sartre
and Simone de Beauvoir, or Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Only Pawns are "gender neutral" in that either the man or the woman
on a team may move them. Otherwise all pieces are gender specific.
That is, the man moves the Maharaja, Rooks, Knights, and the Samurai.
The woman moves the Maharani, Queen, Princess, and the Bishops.
In this game the pieces have the following point values :
Pawn = 1
Samurai = 3
Knight = 3 -1/2
Concubine = 4 aka "Bishop" in most of versions of chess;
this terminology was once used in a chess variant
promoted by Lord Rutland
Rook = 5
Princess = 8
Queen = 9
Male player : Total point value of all pieces = 25
Female " " " " " " " = 25
Powers :
The same as in chess with these exceptions-
Pawns, like standard chess, can move 2 squares for a first move;
unlike orthodox chess, however, one Pawn and only one Pawn,
may move 2 squares at any point in the game but can only do this once.
There is no en passant. Promotion can be to any piece except
a Queen or Princess.
Samurai moves like a King and captures like a King but is not a "royal"
piece
Concubine moves and captures like a Bishop but can change file color; that
is,
a Concubine may move one space in any direction for its turn and change
from
black to red, or vice versa, for subsequent moves. The Concubine may not
capture during a one space move.
Rook, there is no castling and that move is not part of the game.
Princess can be considered as a combination of a Knight and Bishop.
Like a Concubine it may also move one space in any direction.
The Princess may not capture during a one space move. Obviously
this rule does not apply to either a Princess or Concubine if a one space
move would be "normal" without an intention of change of file color.
The Maharaja and Maharani move like a King in orthodox chess.
Both are royal playing pieces; if either is checkmated the game ends.
There is the option, however, for either or both royal pieces to exit
the board for a limited time, not longer than 2 turns for either royal.
Either royal, or both, may "take refuge" only once in any game. He or
she,
if this option is taken, is presumed to be in a safe location that can only
be
accessed from the square the piece was on just before exit from the board.
At the conclusion of no more than 2 turns, the royal piece must return to
the board -this counts as a move- to the exact same space it was on
just before exiting; if the only possible return is into check, the game
ends.
Consultation :
Each 2 person team would need to communicate in order to co-ordinate
their actions. However, there needs to be limitations since too much
talking
would slow the game to a crawl and possibly cause other problems.
Therefore, there shall be no talking during any player's turn; there may
be as many as four (4) time-outs in a game, two at two minutes each
and another two at five minutes each. Either couple can call a time-out
at their discretion to talk in private, but when all four time outs have
been used there can be no more.
When a Pawn reaches the last rank and is to be promoted, a couple may
talk about which piece to promote a Pawn to, but this conversation, which
does
not count as a time-out, shall not be in private like the time-outs and it
should
only be for a minute or so.
This is Mixed Doubles Chess
May the best players win.
Billy R.
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