Dark chess is a chess variant with incomplete information, similar to Kriegspiel. It was invented by Jens Bæk Nielsen and Torben Osted in 1989. A player does not see the entire board, only their own pieces (including pawns), and squares where these pieces could move.
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Dark Chess - Gameplay
... Dark chess has a strong strategic flavor ... In this chess variant a king should be carefully protected from very dangerous checks by invisible pieces ...
... Dark chess has a strong strategic flavor ... In this chess variant a king should be carefully protected from very dangerous checks by invisible pieces ...
Famous quotes containing the words chess and/or dark:
“Of all my Russian books, The Defense contains and diffuses the greatest “warmth”Mwhich may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract chess is supposed to be.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
Daring even to give You
Dark despairing features”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
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