A sample game of Extinction Chess

I won’t go into details about the rules. Just try to get a taste of how this chess variant

works.

Castelli vs Kustrin , time unknown.

Black to move, White is checking the Bishop with Queen and since this is the last bishop, Black must parry this by :

1...Bd8

 2.Rd1  Re8  Black checking the Queen with Rook

 3.Ne6  the Knight checking the Bishop and Rook checking the Queen

 3…. Qxd1 is merely checking the king and in Extinction Chess, and the King ,being on par with other pieces, need not be evacuated here since white strikes first.

4. Nxd8 checkmates the bishop, the knight finishes off the last bishop and the species of bishop is extinct. White wins.

But the main idea of extinction chess is: you must always keep 1 of each piece. If that is no longer true, you lose.