Standard

What changes

The board starts the same way standard chess does.

21 augments run on this rule

• Collapse Every twenty moves the outermost ring of the board falls away.
• Ascension A piece that captures is promoted one step up the ladder.
• Manners A piece that just captured must make a quiet move before capturing again.
• Deep Freeze Every third turn, three pieces on each side are frozen in place.
• Blessing Every eighth turn, one random piece on each side cannot be captured for a while.
• Poison A piece that captures cannot move for the next two turns.
• Fatigue You cannot move the same piece four times in a row.
• Black Ice Queens, rooks and bishops slide as far as they can go.
• Butterfingers About one capture in seven slips out of your hands.
• Saturation A piece that has taken three pieces cannot capture again.
• No Retreat Nothing may move backwards. Kings are exempt.
• Momentum Move the same piece three turns in a row and it cannot be captured for three plies.
• Disarm Every sixth turn, one piece on each side loses the ability to capture.
• Forced Exchange If you can capture, you must.
• Underpromotion Pawns may not become queens.
• Inertia Queens, rooks and bishops cannot move just one square.
• Staked One piece on each side is nailed down for the whole game.
• Black Hole One centre square swallows whatever lands on it.
• Pandemonium On the twelfth move, every piece except kings and pawns is shuffled.
• Red Card On the twentieth move, one piece on each side is sent off.
• Salvage Pawns may only promote into pieces you have already lost.