| Chess/Aces is a game based on astrology and modern warfare figures and has proofed to be a highly strategic game when played - without strategy you won´t succeed. Aces stands for Astrological Chess exposes Strategy. It is mainly based on classical western chess but also includes elements of ancient or Asian chess games which makes it complete in a sense of holding the best elements of chess throughout time and places. It has 8 types of different pieces - King, Queen, Wezir, Elephant, Bishop, Knight, Rook and Pawn which correspond to the 7/8 visible planets of the starry sky or to the 8 trigrams of Eastern cosmology and to modern warfare categories.
The 6 Western Chess pieces of King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook and Pawn are moved like in Western Chess. In addition to this pieces there are the Elephant and the Wezir which were and are existent in older chess variants like Shatranj or Shaturanga. The chess board is extended to 8 x 12 fields for the additional pieces.
For more information on the development and philosophy behind this chess variant you can visit: http://www.bunkahle.com/Schach/chess.html |
