Troy (chess variant)

Hector—the mightiest Trojan in chess variant Troy

Troy is a chess variant inspired by the Trojan War. The armies of Greece and Troy wage battle on a 91-cell hexagonal gameboard. The game was developed in 1988 by the Fanaat games club (the Netherlands) as a wedding gift for two of its prominent members.[1][2][lower-alpha 1]

Game rules

Troy starting position. For this diagram: Pallas Athene/Ares are represented by chess kings; Heros are represented by queens; Achilles/Hector are represented by inverted queens; Spartans/Amazons are represented by knights; and Greeks/Trojans are represented by pawns.

Each player has 19 men with initial setup as shown. As in chess, a captured man is replaced on its cell by the capturing piece, and the winning objective is checkmate. The Greek king is Pallas Athene; the Trojan king is Ares.

The warriors

References

Notes

  1. Newlyweds Anneke Treep and Lukas Schoonhoven.[1]

Citations

Bibliography

  • Pritchard, D. B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Games & Puzzles Publications. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1. 
  • Pritchard, D. B. (2007). Beasley, John, ed. The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John Beasley. ISBN 978-0-9555168-0-1. 

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