Bear chess
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Bear chess (rus. Медвежьи шахматы)
Bear chess - chess variant, proposed by Mikhail Sosnovsky in 1985 in Tver (Kalinin, USSSR).
Game rules
A hundred-cell board is used. As in orthodox chess, Arabic numerals are used to denote contours, and Latin letters (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j) are used for verticals. Field a1 is black.
In addition to the usual chess pieces (king, queen, rook, bishop, knight and pawn), a new piece called "bear" has been introduced into the game. This piece is located on squares d1, g1 (for white) and d10, g10 (for black), that is, next to the king and queen.The bear knows how to jump over his own and others' pieces. This piece moves two squares vertically, horizontally and diagonally, as well as a knight.
On the first move, the pawns can move one, two or three squares based on the player's choice. The King moves two squares for kingside castling and three squares for queenside castling, and the corresponding rook is moved across the king. All other rules (castling conditions, capturing pawns on the passage, promoting pawns, etc.) remain the same as in orthodox chess.