How to play
Transcendental Chess
Back rank is randomly determined, but on the first turn, a player can exchange two pieces.
Introduction
Transcendental Chess is a shuffle variant, such as Chess960, but balances out any inequalities not by limiting the starting positions after an initial randomization, but by allowing two home-rank pieces to be transposed.
How to play Transcendental Chess Chess
Starting Position
The home-rank is shuffled for both sets of pieces, the only condition being that the Bishops must start on different color squares.
One of 8,294,400 possible setups after a the initial randomised shuffle.
Moves of the Pieces
The moves of the pieces remains the same as Standard Chess, but on the first move only, a player can choose to transpose (swap position of) any two pieces on the home-rank.
Pawn Promotion
Pawn promotion rules remains the same as Standard Chess.
Castling
Castling is not pemitted in Transcendental Chess.
En Passant
En passant rules remains the same as Standard Chess.
Check and Checkmate
Check and Checkmate rules remain the same as Standard Chess.
Stalemate
Stalemate conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
Draw
Draw conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
Winning
Winning conditions remain the same as Standard Chess.
