Clerical Chess (a kind of grand cavalier but with bishops-based pieces)

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Clerical chess is basically a fairy chess variant of pieces based on the bishop.
The movements of these pieces are mostly diagonal, and most of the pieces are colorblind (only move within a color) or partialblind (each time they move they change color).

This chess substitutes the king for the slippery piece of the pope or pontiff (piece able to move like bishop and king, and royal piece), on the board 10x10, and eliminates all the pieces except the bishop, knight and pawn.

Thus, new pieces have been added, and others modified:
- The pawn is actually a berolina pawn (moves diagonally forward and captures moving forward).
- The horse has been buffed and now moves as a horse or as a ferz, that is, moves as a horse or a step diagonally.
- The bishop keeps all his movements without changing.

- The archbishop moves like bishop or horse, is a piece created by José Raul Capablanca, who used in his variant "Capablanca chess".

- The cardinal is actually a little-known piece named duke, but with another name: the cardinal moves a step in orthogonal, and then can move like a bishop in the similar direction to the previous step.

- The seraph is a piece of my invention, I already talked about it, moves back like a bishop or exercises a diagonal hook movement forward.

 

Pieces movements images:

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Initial positions image:

- Pope (represented like a latin cross)

- Seraph (represented like a sacred wheel)

- Cardinals (represented like ortodox cross)

- Archbishops (represented like white bishops)

- Bishops (represented like bishops)

- Knights (represented like knights)

- [berolina] Pawns (represented like pawns)

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Rules:

Pawns:

Not enpassant capture nor double initial step. When a pawn achieves the first or second row (relative the opponent), can promote to any other piece excepting pope or pawn again.

 

Check, stalemate and checkmate:

The same rules of standard chess but for the pope piece.

Game ends when one player achieves to do checkmate to the opponent pope.

 

 

Someone wants to play?

Personally I do not like to play variants in forums. The games are very slow.
But I can help you organize a game with my variant (I would graphically represent the game and judge when a movement is not legal), if there are at least 2 people interested in trying it.