Chess Two

Move: 1

Variant: Toad-Fool Chess

Turn: White

Standard Move: Available

Special Move: Available

AI: Level 3

Rules

Pieces use shields: most survive one hit before they can be removed.
Each turn has one standard move and one Life/Death move. Players may skip the remaining Life/Death slot.
Life heals shieldless pieces on adjacent light diagonal squares. Death can kill adjacent non-King dark-square targets unless they have an orthogonally adjacent ally.
Life and Death are controlled by board half, can be passed through, and annihilate each other orthogonally. Death-hit attacks still land before the attacker dies.
Shield breaks use a staging square. Killing blows resolve on the destroyed piece's square.
Chess Two Knights use ramp jumps for empty-square moves and L-shapes for attacks. Toad-Fool and Frame Chess allow orthodox L-moves, and all Knight L-moves apply bend-square Life and Death pass-through effects.
A piece giving check becomes Intimidated, suppressing its shield while the check continues. The checked side's standard move must end the check by moving the King, blocking, or removing the checker.
Chess Two pawns can advance up to three squares from home. Toad-Fool Frontal Fan pawns move in a compact fan but attack by orthodox one-square diagonals. Pawns can use variant en passant and promote on the far rank.
Frame Chess suppresses shields on edge squares, blocks non-King standard attacks from or through the frame, and can wrap movement horizontally between the a and k files.
Kings are checkmated, not captured.
Only Kings and Life pieces remaining is a draw.

Full rules

White's turn. Select a piece to begin.

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