Chess Royale

Chess Royale is a non-standard chess game in which kings have magical powers. You try to capture the opposing king by combining queued moves with magic abilities that use accumulated elixir.

Pieces

The pieces move across the board according to their abilities:

• The Pawn: the most numerous and weakest piece; moves one cell horizontally or vertically.
• The Knight: moves two cells in one direction and one in the other, jumping over other pieces.
• The Bishop: moves diagonally without jumping over intervening pieces.
• The Rook: moves any number of cells horizontally or vertically without jumping.
• The Queen: the most powerful piece; moves any number of cells horizontally, vertically or diagonally, combining the rook’s and bishop’s movement.
• The King: moves to any adjoining cell. Losing your king means losing the game.

Magic abilities

On your turn, you can spend accumulated elixir on magical abilities:

• Obstacle: blocks piece movement in a selected cell. It is added to the turn queue and destroyed when the move begins.
• New Pawn: summons a pawn to a selected unoccupied cell.
• Piece Change: changes a selected piece into another, except for the king.