How to play Rewinding Chess

Rewinding chess .

How to play .

The rules are the same as regular chess except for these changes for a refresher of those rules .

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The object of the game is to be the first player to get all their pieces back to their original starting position .

As if you were playing a game of chess backwards , lay out the board , the player playing as black places the white king on any square on their opponents half of the board , then their opponent does the same with the black king , but it may not be adjacent to the white king .

Place all the other pieces to the side to create the pool .

Black goes first then turns alternate on your turn .

You may perform one of three actions .

One , you may move one of your opponent's pieces and place one of your pieces from the pool in its starting square .

As if your opponent had captured that piece two , you may move one of your own pieces and place an opponent's piece from the pool on its starting square three , you may move one of your pieces to another square pieces must always be placed from the pool if the piece does not exist in the pool , then you may not place it .

You may not capture an opponent's piece .

Pawns must move backwards towards you .

You are allowed to end your turn with your king in check , but you are not allowed to end your turn with your opponent's king in check .

If your opponent's king is in check , then you must make a move to remove that check .

If you are unable to remove the threat of check from your opponent's king , then you lose the game .

The king may not place a piece that creates check and move to a threatened square .

In the same turn , you may only move an enemy pawn or create an enemy pawn on a column where no other enemy pawn exists and where no pawn is between it and its owners' closest row .

You are allowed to move your own ponds to the same column .

If you want pawns are allowed a reverse double step , move on their fourth row .

If you want as well as reverse on pass on , if you perform a reverse on passon , then your opponent must move their pawn to their second row on their very next turn .

You are not allowed to perform a reverse on Passan .

If this space is blocked , pawns may never be placed or moved to their owner's closest row .

You are allowed to demote pieces on their owners' farthest row to ponds , you are allowed to reverse castle once you do , the rook and king may no longer move , each player's bishops must be created on opposite colors .

If ever you are in a position where you create a paradox of rules or moves or it is impossible for you to make a legal move , then you lose the first player to get all of their pieces back to their original chess starting locations .

Wins .