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8-Piece Chess is a game information page. It is categorized as: Two dimensional, Orthodox chess set but with different moving pieces, Orthodox chess set but with different capturing rules.

8-Piece Chess. (Queen's Army chess, all 8 Back Rank Pieces different).

By JT K.

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The board used for this game has 8 row(s), 8 column(s), 64 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.
Invented in the year 2019. [2018-2020]. [2014-2024].

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By JT K.

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8-Piece Chess. (Queen's Army chess, all 8 Back Rank Pieces different).

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Feb 26 04:59 PM EST:

Here's a photo of a possible way to set up for 8-Piece Chess with some Musketeer Chess pieces. Affiliate links for buying these pieces are provided on the Musketeer Chess variant kits page. This setup uses pieces from three different kits, each visible behind the black pieces. For the Jailer, it uses the Spider from the Spider & Dragon (or Amazon) kit. For the Lancer, it uses the Unicorn from the Fortress & Unicorn set, whose horn can be set to point in different directions. For the Sentry, it uses the Archibishop from the Chancellor & Archbishop set. In case you want to save money by buying only two kits, some alternative pieces are shown along the side. If you use the Fortress from the Fortress & Unicorn kit for the Jailer, you could leave out the Spider & Dragon kit. Alternately, if you use the Amazon (or Dragon) from the Spider & Dragon (or Amazon) kit for the Sentry, you could leave out the Chancellor & Archbishop kit. I favor the Archbishop for this piece because it's shorter.

8 Piece Chess with Musketeer pieces

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Feb 15 01:30 PM EST:

This page is missing an image. This turned up in the error log:

[15-Feb-2023 14:22:50 UTC] 404: https://www.chessvariants.com/membergraphics/MS8-piece-chess/Setup with inexpensive materials.jpg
[15-Feb-2023 14:22:50 UTC] Referred by https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/8-piece-chess

I looked for the image in question but didn't find it. I assume it has to be uploaded.

💡📝JT K wrote on Fri, Sep 20, 2019 11:59 AM EDT:

Nice one Ben, exactly right. In addition:

Pushing the King to d5 also works, but my original idea- just like your line of thinking, was "return to the square it just left" like in my checkmate example in the Pieces section. Even though it can do a lot, I'm pretty sure the sentry is still just a bit weaker than a bishop (and that's how I wanted it), for example if the sentry were a pinned piece here, it can't perform the final mate move, while a bishop already has it mated. Advantages and disadvantages is what I was going for.

Ben Reiniger wrote on Fri, Sep 20, 2019 10:32 AM EDT:

Thanks H.G., I've changed my older comment to use the inline-style whiteout.

H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Sep 20, 2019 03:36 AM EDT:

A common work-around for spoilers is to print them as white text on a white background. Selecting it then usually makes it visible. This editor doesn't seem to have a button for selection of the font color, though. But of course this could be done through HTML tags. Like below:

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