Icon The following is from www.reddit.com/r/CentariChess/comments/iaflmn/description_of_the_icon_and_banner/. I changed this subreddit’s icon to the image seen below. I created this icon with rook, bishop, and knight movements in mind. The purple represents rook movements. The cyan represents bishop movements. The red represents knight movements. These triangles being the same size represents the similarity between these pieces. These triangles forming one equilateral triangle represents how, when combined, these piece movements completely control an empty five by five board if this super combined piece starts on the center square. Each piece controls eight squares on this five by five board. Each piece controls…
This variant is the same as Centari Chess with the following differences. A game does not stop immediately after a player runs out of time. When a player is out of time in a turn, that player will randomly make a move in that turn. When this happens, each possible move that player could make in that turn should practically have an equal chance of being made as every other possible move that player could make in that turn. When this happens, a move must be made in that turn almost exactly when that player runs out of time in…
In short, Godspeed Centari Chess is Centari Chess with no time control (in a way that causes each game to be extremely fast). Godspeed Centari Chess is the same as Centari Chess with the following differences. There is no time control in the game. Both players are always able to make a turn until the game ends. (I’m using the term turn to describe a half move.) Turns made by a player which put their own king into check are legal. Any position that is a stalemate under standard chess stalemate rules or Centari Chess stalemate rules immediately results in…
This page is the main description for Centari Chess. It is the main page for learning what Centari Chess is, its rules, and its benefits over chess and other chess variants. This page fully describes what Centari Chess is and exactly what all of its rules are.
This post lists out each possible starting position with a numeric ID for Centari Chess. There are 576 possible starting positions in Centari Chess. They are all listed below from Black’s perspective. The fourth letter in each starting position in the list below represents the piece on the E file. The first 96 starting positions are positions with queens on the board. These are also all of the Kraton Chess starting positions. These first 96 starting positions were made with a document of every Chess960 starting position and text filters. (I also made the other 480 starting positions using text…
A post for a variant of Centari Chess that adds a limitlessly customizable amount of extra complexity to Centari Chess.