In this variation, mere promotion of a prince does not win the game outright for the player. In this variation, the princes may not be promoted to kings but are used like any other ordinary chess piece. The prince may only move sideways or forward one square at a time either diagonally or along a file but not backwards in the same manner that a pawn cannot move backwards. In this variation, promotion of the prince wins the game. Another variation is that the pawns may or not be promoted in this game.
Any chess player can learn to play the game in a matter of minutes.
Thus, all chess players as well as potential players constitute a huge and almost unlimited market for the game. It is actually two games in one, incorporating the old game of chess as well as the new one with the mere addition of four new pieces such that any player would have the option of playing either game with the same set any time he wants. Unlike other new board games that quickly catch the imagination of the gaming public and just as rapidly fade from view, this new game can be expected to endure for as long as chess itself, from which it is based, endures. The new game is more representative of romantic reality wherein kings are succeeded by their descendant princes and die in battle rather than resign before they are actually defeated. Because of the two modes by which a player may win, the new game offers opportunities for simultaneous offensive and defensive strategies that are not possible in traditional chess.