How to play Musketeer Chess

Musketeer chess , how to play the rules are the same as regular chess except for these changes for a refresher of those rules .

Check out this video lay out the 10 musketeer pieces and white picks one of them black may either accept or refuse that piece .

If black refuses that piece , then the default pieces , leopard and cannon will be used if black accepts white's pick , then black takes the same piece in their color .

Then they pick a second piece from the remaining options .

White follows by taking black's pick in their color .

Lay out the corresponding reference cards for the pieces picked to use during the game .

Remove the remaining eight sets of musketeers as they will not be used .

The board has two additional imaginary rows used for some temporary piece storage , set up the board like normal .

Then beginning with white players alternate placing the first musketeer white picked on an imaginary square on the back row behind their rear rank pieces .

Then they place black's picked piece .

If the selection is the default pieces , then the cannon is placed first followed by the leopard .

You are not allowed to place one musketeer behind the king and the other behind a rook , the musketeers may not share an imaginary square nor may they move to a different imaginary space once placed .

Once both musketeers are placed , the game begins like normal .

A musketeer enters the game on the same turn when the square immediately in front of it is vacant .

When that happens , move that musketeer to that square before your opponent goes , musketeers may not be moved on the board before this happens .

If the square in front of a musketeer is captured before that musketeer enters the game , then that musketeer is also captured and removed from the board .

Once in play , musketeers can be captured like normal pawns are allowed to promote to either musketeer used in the game .

Musketeer moves can jump and or slide .

Jumping means it can pass over other pieces that are in the way while sliding means it cannot pass through pieces .

The new pieces are as follows .

The leopard combines the jumping moves of the night and the sliding moves of the bishop .

But with a limited range of two squares , the canon slides to any adjacent square or it can jump two squares vertically or horizontally or it can jump like a knight to the right or left .

The unicorn jumps like a knight or jumps three squares in one direction , then one square at a right angle .

The dragon combines the jumping moves of a knight with the sliding moves of a queen .

The chancellor combines the jumping moves of a night with the sliding moves of a rook .

The archbishop combines the jumping moves of a knight with the sliding moves of a bishop .

The elephant slides to any adjacent square or it can jump two squares horizontally vertically or diagonally .

The hawk jumps two or three squares horizontally vertically or diagonally .

The fortress slides up to three squares like a bishop or it can jump like a knight forwards or backwards or it can jump two squares horizontally or vertically .

The tower top of the fortress is pegged .

So you can interchange the tops of the pieces if you want .

The spider slides up to two squares like a bishop or it can jump like a knight in any direction or it can jump two squares horizontally or vertically .

The tower top is pegged so you can interchange the tops of the pieces if you want .

Check out the link in the description where you can play musketeer chess online to help you learn and practice using these new pieces .