Rediscover chess
- A standard chess set
- A familiar chess foundation
- Two types of Spark Moves
Spark Chess The Game of Spark Moves
Before White’s move
Puzzles
Find the solution
Choose a piece
№WhiteBlack
Differences
What changes on the board
- The goal is to capture the king
- Check, checkmate and stalemate are removed
- If the side to move has no legal move, the game is drawn
- Castling is removed
- Swap moves a pawn and one friendly piece
- Shift moves only the pawn
- Material stays unchanged: Spark Moves exclude captures and promotions
- In notation, a Spark Move uses the > (greater-than) sign
- The pieces are the king, queen, rook, bishop and knight
- Only friendly pieces participate in the move
- A pawn moves in every Spark Move
- A pair of pieces protects the interaction square
- A regular pawn move is one square forward
- A Spark Move lifts the forward-only restriction
- A pawn may use any rank except the promotion rank
Allowed area
- White
- ranks 1–7
- Black
- ranks 2–8
- The first repetition of a position is a draw
- The 50-move rule is removed
Rules
Two mechanics of Spark Moves
Shift
- The square d4 is empty.
- The rook on d1 and the bishop on b2 interact on d4.
- The pawn on f2 moves to d4.
A pawn moves to any empty square that two of your pieces attack.
- White pawns may use ranks 1–7.
- Black pawns may use ranks 2–8.
Play
Play the computer
Regular moveShiftSwapRelay SwapInteraction square
Your colour
Difficulty
Oddsthe computer starts without pieces
TipFor your first game, take queen-and-rook odds
Custom positionFEN
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Analysis
Try the rules on the board
Choose a piece
№WhiteBlack
The position must contain exactly one white king and one black king.
Import / exportFEN and PGN
№WhiteBlack
Author
Aleksandr Solomachev
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