Capablanca chess is a chess variant played on a 10x8 board. The game is named after its inventor, the former world chess champion, José Raúl Capablanca. He proposed this variant while he was world champion, not as a "sour grapes" rationalization after losing his title, as some critics erroneously asserted.[1] Capablanca thought that chess would be played out in a few decades, that games between chess grandmasters would always end in a draw. This danger of "draw death" was a main motivation for him to create a more complex and rich version of chess.
Besides the usual set of chess pieces, each player has additionally two new pieces with corresponding pawns:
a chancellor that moves as both a rook and a knight;
an archbishop that moves as both a bishop and a knight.
The new pieces have properties that enrich the game. For example, the archbishop can checkmate a lone king by itself (king in a corner, archbishop placed diagonally with one square in between). Capablanca thought that adding these two powerful pieces would reduce the likelihood of a draw and make the game itself more interesting...
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@Purple_Heart, then I will be actually older than him for a bit (ik thats not how ages work btw)
