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The manual with all rules for colour chess can be found here (also available in German here). As two pieces move every turn, you are allowed to stay in or move into check during your turn and the game is only over once a King is actually captured. Castling is allowed - it functions as normal except you can move into and through check. It is triggered by the colour the King moves to when it moves towards the Rook. En Passant also holds true and is valid from whenever the Pawn is moved forward two spaces, until the end of the next player's turn.

A Colour Chess set together with the variant Lure is available to purchase. You can find it here. More info can be read here. There is also a free printable board you can try here. If you'd rather use your own solid pieces to play Colour Chess, then please do! Each coloured tile has brown or cream on the back, so you can create normal boards but with special condition tiles like below (where pieces can't stop on red tiles), or zone off areas of the board for things like 4 player Chess. You can read more about these options in this update.

Colour Chess has an app on iOS & Android that can be found here. Features: Ranked and Casual Online playLocal offline playBlitz (5 min + 5 secs per turn), Standard (15 min + 10 secs per turn) and Correspondence (24 hrs to take your turn)TutorialOffline ChallengesRandom and patterned boardsMove assist

Join us and play some live games on the app, every Tuesday evening from 19:00 BST (18:00 UTC).

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My name on the color chess app is Pecyi010. My current rating is 1797. What is your guys names and have you been able to climb the leaderboard? Personally I am hoping to enter that top 5 leaderboard someday, but I am not sure if I am good enough.

Setting up the board With two of you placing the tiles, you’ll be ready and playing in a couple of minutes (unless you’re busy making pretty patterns!) There are 3 distinctly different ways of setting up the game: Randomised The quickest way to get started – randomly fill in 5 of each colour in each half of the board, then fill the last 4 spaces with random tiles. Patterned Create a patterned board to battle on. What will you come up with?! It’s not just for looks either, patterned boards create very interesting games! The board below for example will create strong clustered play, with pieces defending or transferring between zones. At the start, White has no moves onto purple whilst Black has no moves onto red; both players will have to carefully choose their opening moves to create opportunities on these colours and prevent themselves from having forced or missed moves. Competitive For advanced play, players will build the board from scratch between them, trying to place colours in a way that will complement their playing style. Taking from a shared supply of visible tiles, players alternately play a piece anywhere into the board: they must play either into a corner space, or edge to edge with an existing piece. As you are able to play tiles anywhere, you must balance developing your own structure with interrupting that of your opponent. Different size boards The game has a modular frame with pieces varying in length from 1 to 4 tiles, allowing you to create different sized game boards. This allows you to create smaller boards for quirky piece combinations and more puzzle-like quick play, or to combine pieces from Colour Chess and Lure together on one board. You can also combine multiple sets to create sprawling battlefields for Swarm play or 4 player Colour Chess.

Some pointers to get you started: https://www.dogearedgames.com/colour-chess-tips-and-tricks/