Free Placement
An interesting chess variant is Free Placement.
This variant was created by Roger Coop.
Rules
- Using the standard chessboard and pieces, each player alternately places the pieces on an empty board.
- White places first.
- All your men must be setup on the first 4 ranks.
- The Kings may start in check.
- White's first move can't be a capture.
- If either player starts in check, he must escape the check on his first move or lose.
Examples
![](freeplacement1.gif)
Here is an example starting position that could be produced through Free Placement.
![](freeplacement2.gif)
There are a seemingly endless number of possibilities!!!
![](freeplacement3.gif)
Be careful not to get mated before you have a chance to move though... tee hee.
Sources
Roger Coop.
Diagrams were made with Chess Captor.
Written by Roger Cooper. HTML conversion by Chuck Moulton.
WWW page created: December 1, 1999.