Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed and released in 1992 by Daniel MacDonald. It is played on a 10 by 10 board with four extra squares, each added diagonally next to a corner square. The layout follows standard chess with the addition of a champion in each corner of the main board and a wizard in each added corner square. One reason for the new pieces was to equalize the number of jumping pieces with sliding pieces, and the wizard was created as a color-bound piece analogous to the bishop. The symmetry creates new tactical possibilities, including forcing checkmate with two knights, and grandmasters Michael Rohde and Alex Sherzer have endorsed it.
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2. Omega Chess (Wikipedia)
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played on a 10×10 board
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Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed and released in 1992
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