INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATOR OF BEYOND CHESS

♟ In the following interview with Ray Crockett, the creator of BEYOND CHESS, we delve deeper into the origins and the future of a new way of playing this ancient game!

♟ In the past, only pieces and pawns were moved in chess… this has changed in BEYOND CHESS, the variant where an empty square on the board can also be shifted after each move.

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Very nice variant

White to move mate in 1

Black wasn't able to mate because White could always move the mating square away.

Hi Evert823, are you a Beyond Chessplayer? Clever puzzle!

Tiles cannot be shifted right back consecutively, so it helps the game progress without stalling. In Beyond Chess, there is always a way!

I learned about this game because of this thread. I find the idea original and appealing.
The board moves on something else, and since that something else must have a name too it's called the rift mat.

However I think that a logically equivalent set of rules can be defined using just a board and a new piece called the Blocker.

So instead of moving an empty square to an adjacent rift, we would be moving a blocker to an adjacent empty square.

Your idea is interesting but it falls under the KISS law
Increasing the number of pieces on the board has been tried several times, as well as creating pieces with new powers. And a new piece like "Blocker", actually an artificial barrier to replace the natural Rifts, would only uselessly go the amount of elements on the board. The simplicity of Beyond Chess playing only with the squares and pieces and pawns is hard to beat. But it's amazing how much you've captured of the essence of this new variant! It took me almost a year to start understanding certain principles and concepts that only occur in Beyond Chess!
Congratulations!

Qc2, very pretty mate

Exactly!
And what would be the next moves and shifts after Qc2?
Remember that in Beyond Chess just shift the right tile to the wrong direction which is also a blunder...
For example, if after Qc2 Black shifts the tile F4 will lose mate in 2 with White's answer Ke6 E4> (or F5v)!

In Beyond Chess there is a high possibility that Stalemate and/or the King will be evading checkmate for several turns (the "Royal Run" in BC jargon)!

What's beyond chess? I'd like to play it looks fun

Hi Chesscroc11, to play the beta (trial) version before the worldwide launch, download BEYOND CHESS DIGITAL from the Apple app store:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/nAkkIcVN
The Beyond Chess rules:
www.gobeyondchess.com/rules

You can also check out the BEYOND CHESS DIGITAL Facebook group full of epic matches:
www.facebook.com/groups/681184066564051

How to play BEYOND CHESS!
www.facebook.com/groups/681184066564051/permalink/698291018186689

Black will checkmate on the next turn!