Vest Piece – A vest piece (or vest) is any one of the “collared shaped” rings designed to easily slide over and encircle the main body of any one of the chess pieces. For example, when a privileged rook with bishop vest power moves as a rook or when an unprivileged knight moves as a knight, etc. For example… “privileged white pawn with rook vest power,” or “privileged black knight with bishop vest power,” etc.Ĭonventional-Move – A “conventional-move” is made when a chess piece, privileged or unprivileged, moves based upon the authority granted by the type of piece it is only. ![]() We refer to the privileged chess pieces first by the type of piece it is and then by the acquired vest it wears. Privileged – Any chess piece that wears a vest is considered to be “privileged” because the vest empowers it with added moving capabilities. Plunder – The word used to describe when a chess piece captures an opposing chess piece and “plunders” or “confiscates” moving capabilities from the captured piece. When plundering occurs, the capturing chess piece attaches to itself, a vest that corresponds to some or all of the moving capabilities of the just captured piece. (Note: The PlunderChess® game comes packaged with an extra king and extra queen for each player.) Knight - 2 white units and 2 black units.Bishop - 2 white units and 2 black units.Queen - 2 white units and 2 black units.Each PlunderChess® game set comes packaged with the following (36) chess pieces: "Pawn vests" are NOT promotable, only the actual pawn chess pieces are.Ĭhess Piece – A chess piece is any one of the traditional (yet uniquely designed) chessmen or chess playing pieces used in battle against your opponent. Additionally, the vest that is "automatically checking" the opposing king, IS NOT SURRENDERED because vests have unlimited checking privileges.ġ1. Vests check automatically and have unlimited checking capabilities! For instance, if a chess piece wearing a vest is moved on the board (by the power of its traditional moves) to a new position whereby the power from the vest is now attacking the opposing king, this is an automatic check. If you capture a piece that is wearing a vest, you may a) plunder the vest it wears, or… b) plunder a vest that represents the captured piece, or… c) altogether decline to plunder a vest. If a chess piece wearing a plundered vest makes another capture (assuming capture was NOT due to its vest power), it may still swap out its unused vest for a freshly captured vest.ĩ. (I.e., you will never see a piece wearing two or more vests.)Ĩ. No more then one plundered vest is allowed to be worn on any one chess piece at a time. ![]() After a vest is used (one time) to move a chess piece on the board, it is immediately rendered powerless and immediately expunged from play.ħ. ![]() (I.e., you will never see a queen wearing a rook vest because a queen already possesses the moving capabilities of a rook and a rook vest provides NO additional moving benefits to the queen.)Ħ. When a capture takes place, in order for the “capturing” chess piece to plunder a vest, the vest must offer it some type of additional moving benefit or said capturing piece will not be allowed to plunder that vest. (I.e., the plundered vest may be used on it's very next move or carried around on the board by the piece wearing it and used later in the game, but only once.)ĥ. The added moving capability provided by a plundered vest may be used one time only on any future move. NOTE: If you are playing PlunderChess® via the game App (available in both AppStore and PlayStore) this unique plundering feature is illustrated by the overlaying of a colored corresponding banner (again, called "vests") on the piece that makes the capture.Ĥ. This newly acquired vest, readily visible to both players, signifies the pieces extra moving capabilities for one future move. When plundering is elected, a "colored vest" that corresponds to the moving capabilities being plundered, gets coupled to the chess piece that made the kill. YES, sometimes you do NOT want to plunder a vest from the spoils of the kill!! The case for NOT plundering would be if you suspect your opponent will immediately capture you back (making a "trade") and acquire the vest you just plundered. Plundering is optional and may be declined by the player making the capture. "Plundering" occurs when a chess piece captures an opposing piece and immediately "plunders" or "acquires" additional moving capabilities directly from the piece it just captured, hence, strengthening the capturing piece.Ģ.
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