Capablanca Chess Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Capablanca Chess is a variation on the game of chess that exists in several versions played on a board of either 10x10 or 10x8 squares. The game is named after its inventor, World chess champion José Raúl Capablanca.

Each player has a king, a queen, a chancellor that moves like both a rook and a knight, an archbishop that moves both like a bishop and a knight, two rookss, two knightss, two bishopss, and ten pawns.

Table of contents

1 Ideas that predate Capablanca's chess 2 Setup of the pieces 3 Variants inspired by Capablanca Chess 4 External links

Ideas that predate Capablanca's chess

Capablanca was not the first person to suggest a similar variant of chess. In 1617, D. Pietro Carrera published a chess variant with the following rules:

• The board was 10 squares wide and 8 squares high.

• Between the rook and the knight on the left hand side was a piece, which could move like either a rook or a knight.

• Between the rook and the knight on the right hand side was a piece, which could move like either a bishop or a knight.

In 1874, Henry Bird proposed a Chess Variant similar to Carrera's variant. The only significant difference was the opening setup: The chancellor piece was placed between the queen's bishop and queen, and the archbishop piece was placed between the king's bishop and king.

Setup of the pieces

Capablanca proposed two opening setups for Capablanca's chess; in one opening setup, he proposed that the archbishop piece be placed between the bishop and the queen, and that the chancellor piece be placed between the king and the king's bishop. This setup has the flaw that it leaves the pawn in front of the king bishop undefended, allowing white to threaten mate on the first move with chancellor to bishop three (moving as a knight), followed by chancellor takes pawn (moving as a rook), which is checkmate (attacking the king as a knight).

Capablanca subsequently revised the opening setup so that the archbishop was between the queen's knight and bishop, and the chancellor was between the king's knight and bishop.

Capablanca also experimented with 10x10 board sizes, where the pawns could move up to three squares on the initial move.

Variants inspired by Capablanca Chess

Capablanca Chess has inspired a number of chess variants, the most popular of which are Grand Chess and Gothic Chess.

External links

• Capablanca Chess | Chess Variant Pages
• ChessV - a program (under GPL license) which allows the play of Capablanca Chess, Bird Chess, Grand Chess and Carrera Chess (as well as several other chess variants) against the computer.

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