Magic Chess

==Pieces==
===Guma===
Depicting warfare as it is on the battlefield
*King
*War Wizard
*Wizard
*Archer
*Behemoth
*Knight
*Mage
*Footman
==== Possible Names ====
* ʕu 'king' > Gu-ma > Egume > Joume
* ʕu 'king' > Gu-wa > Eguwa > Juwa
* ʕu 'king' > Gu-së > Eguse > Jouse
===Wizard's Guma===
The political variety of chess representing all levels and aspects of war
* Pawn
** [subtypes]
* Dragon
* Griffin
* Cockatrice/Bishop
* Archer
* Knight
* Mage
* Wizard
* Tower
* King
* Queen
==== Other ====
* Behemoth
* Great Eagle
* Spy
* Fool/Jester
* Giant
* Gorgon
== Board ==
=== Standard ===
8x8 or 10x10
==== 8x8 ====
* 8x8 Front Row: F F F B B F F F
* 8x8 Back Row: A Kn M WW(/Q) K W Kn A
==== 10x10 ====
* 10x10 Front Row: F F F F-or-Kn F F F-or-Kn F F F
* 10x10 Back Row: B A Kn M WW(/Q) K W Kn A B
==Common Rules==
*Guard / Limited Rampage / Rampagesque, opponent-blind placement of any arrangement before start
*Prometheanesque revival as certain units' move
==Other Variants==
*Hex Chess
**Pentagonal subdivisions from protection spell
*Multilevel
**Flying Chess: ground level and aerial level
*Big and Small
**Octagons and Squares
**Pythagorean
**Wallpaper group p3 w/ big and small passages rule
**War of the Roses on Penrose
*Pentagonal Tiling, monohedral, 15th convex
**Shape changing pentagonal
*Truchet Chess
*Voronoi Chess
*Mudcrack Chess (Gilbert Chess)
**Shifting Gilbert
*Magic Tangram: non-regular movable board using character spells
*Vertexers: some pieces move on vertices while majority move on tiles
==Sources==
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/13/13262994/really-bad-chess-zach-gage-iphone-ipad
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/8/9464705/chesh-iphone-ipad-game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/grids.htm
http://www.pathguy.com/chess/ChessVar.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_variants
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