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Chess variant where players move twice per turn, and there are only pawns and kings. In the very first turn, White moves only once.

Otherwise the rules of chess apply, with the following differences:

• On the first of the two moves, one can move into check or stay in check, and the check-rule applies only on the second move.
• Players can win by either:
  • checkmating the opponent (cannot escape check even in two moves),
  • or by being able to capture the opposing king.
• En passant capture is possible only on the next move, i.e. when the double pawn move was the second move of the first player, and the en passant capture is the first move of the second player.

Examples

The black pawn can capture the white pawn in one turn, in two consecutive moves.

The pawn can capture the king in two consecutive moves. Black wins immediately after the first move.

The king can capture the pawn in the first move no matter it is protected, since the king can move back to its original field (or to an other field) in the second move.

No matter White is in check, that pawn move is legal in the first move, since escaping from check is only neccessary in the second move.

Similar variants

• Double-move Chess
• Monster Chess

Inventor

Double-move chess: Fred Galvin mathematician, 1957^[wiki]; this particular variant: Uray M. János, 2013