All variants

Lance

Both rooks can only move straight forward.

A lance never retreats and never moves sideways, so committing it is permanent. It is far weaker than a rook but it makes a pawn push behind it genuinely frightening. Castling is off.

What changes

The board does not start the way standard chess does.

Standard chess: Classical chess. Checkmate the king.

1 augments run on this rule

Play Lance now