To merge you simply use a turn to move one of your pieces into the square with another, where it essentially becomes a single piece combining the powers of both, (the king cannot merge). I’d still take Plunder Chess for its power stealing aspect, but there are thematic similarities. In some respects it reminds a bit of Plunder Chess a personal variant favourite. The game is played under standard chess rules with one difference – pieces can be merged to combine their powers, and merged pieces can be split back into their individual pieces. So ChessPlus as a variant has some really simple rules that anyone who knows chess at all can understand in about two-minutes. This is not the largest, or heaviest of sets, but I was certainly satisfied by its general look, with one exception detailed further on. To start the pieces in this edition, which does allow for regular western chess play, are quite nice, in a modern sculpt sort of way. So when I got my hands on ChessPlus I went into playing the new variant, released in 2019, with an open mind. With my enjoyment of chess has come an equal interest in chess variants of which there are literally hundreds, some I’d rate as great, others offering little to interest me, and a few tried that are simply bad. ![]() Since I learned how the ‘horse’ moves when I was in Grade 7, I’ve been a chess fan, if not a hard core player who has devoured the dozens of books on chess theory, nor memorized the many ‘standard’ opening approaches and defensive replies. It forms part of the foundation of my love of board games along with crokinole, cribbage and rod-hockey, with checkers deserving of an honourable mention. Chess is, for myself, one of the first real games I learned to play.
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