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Diagonal Chess

 Just like chess, but you start diagonally.
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Before starting, both players agree to putting the king in the back, or queen in the back, or not.

Everything else is the same.

The main advantage is that the game goes much quicker.

Also, all your pieces look pretty cool in a huddle, at the beginning.

—K-trein, Mar 25 2004

Diagonal Chess (1997) http://www.chessvar.../diagonalchess.html
[jutta, Oct 05 2004]

Diagonal Quadrant Chess http://www.chessvar...agonalquadrant.html
white and black pieces in a 4x4 square each, not a triangle. [jutta, Oct 05 2004]

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       I suspect you mean that your pieces start in a diamond, rather than "diagonally". But I may well be wrong.
—DrCurry, Mar 25 2004
   

       Does "back" mean the corner? Where do all the other pieces start?
—AO, Mar 25 2004
   

       See link for a similar named variant (and a great site full of interesting chess variations with an attached discussion board, hint hint).
—jutta, Mar 25 2004
   

       Yeah!   

       only, in the one I play, you let your opponent decide where one of your pawns starts.   

       I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to give myself a qwazonte for this one.
—K-trein, Mar 26 2004
   
      
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