LocKing Chess

LOCKING CHESS is the newest and most challenging way to play chess.

The Knight's jumping power has been adapted for all pieces, and for the first time in chess history, they can now climb - and superimpose - each other.

Finally, after more than 1500 years, chess is complete in three dimensions.

CHATURANGA (India, 6th century)

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SHATRANJ (Persia, 7th century)

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COURIER CHESS (Germany, 12th century)

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WESTERN CHESS (Spain, 15th century)

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CHESS960 (USA, 20th century)

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LOCKING CHESS (Brazil, 21st century)

LOCKING CHESS reinvented chess with the option to superimpose and move pieces over each other, and victory with new types of checkmates. This piece superimposition allows for 1600 opening moves, and for the first time, a King can also check and win with ROYAL LOCKMATE or ROYAL MATE!

In LOCKING CHESS, chess players compete in two territories, one at the level of the chessboard and the other above it, moving their pieces over each other as if they were squares to climb on. Controlling this “airspace” will be vital to create traps, avoid blunders and unexpected captures. Therefore, the mythical animal HIPPOGRIFF, a mixture of horse, eagle and lion, symbolizing dominance on land and in the air, was chosen for the LOCKING CHESS logo!

LOCKING CHESS consolidated the third dimension of the chessboard, inaugurating an arsenal of strategic plans and even more complex and challenging tactical themes!

After thousands of tries, now chess is complete.

https://lockingchess.com/english/locking-chess-official-rules/

“I once read a story about the discovery of a strange tribe somewhere in the Amazon basin. An eminent anthropologist recalls that there was some evidence that a spaceship from Mars had landed in the area a millennium or two earlier. ‘Good heaves,’ exclaims the narrator, ‘are you suggesting that this tribe are the descendants of Martians?’ ‘Certainly not,’ snaps the learned man, ‘they are the original Earth-people — it is we who are the Martians.’

Reflect that chess is but an imperfect variant of a game that was itself a variant of a germinal game whose origins lie somewhere in the darkness of time.”

— From the book THE CLASSIFIED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHESS VARIANTS by D.B. Pritchard (2007)

Read more:

https://lockingchess.com/english/avant-locking-chess/

Now LocKing Chess is an official chess variant!

www[dot]chessvariants[dot]com/rules/lockingchess