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Petty Chess
According to Pritchard, Petty Chess was
invented by B. Walker Watson in 1930, and first published in the September
1930 issue of the British Chess Magazine. The game has also been called
Petite Chess, probably to avoid the negative connotation with
the word Petty (which can mean small, but also mean-spirited
in English, where the similar sounding French Petite means only
small.
Rules
The game is played on a board of 5 by 6 squares.
The opening setup is as follows:
|---|---|---|---|---|
| q | k | b | n | r |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p | p | p | p | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | P | P | P | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q | K | B | N | R |
|---|---|---|---|---|
- Pawns can only advance one space on their first move. There is no
en passant capturing.
- A pawn can only promote to a captured piece. (Optional: Pritchard does not mention this rule.)
- There is no castling.
Note: as in regular chess, the queen starts on her own color.
Text by Richard Sullivan and Hans Bodlaender.
Information based on Pritchard's
Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, and other sources.
Last modified: February 16, 1996.
Last modified: Monday, December 22, 2008
