Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, May 20, 2008 02:08 PM UTC:What characterizes Chess variants: 1) move one piece at a time to an empty cell, or 2) capture an enemy piece by moving into its cell 3) win by capture of royal piece 4) many different piece types 5) a large fraction of the pieces are pawns 6) pawns are weak pieces which move irreversibly, and promote to a stronger piece when advanced enough. Some of these rules can be violated, but only if all other characteristics are very close to a very common variant. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Tzaar a CV? does not match any item.