Diplomat chess same happens when both kings are the only remaining pieces on the board. The board consists of three concentric circles with 14 cells each and a center cell. The pieces are identical to those in orthodox chess with the following exceptions: An extra piece called the "diplomat" is added. The horse is the same as the knight in orthodox chess. There is no queen. White: Black: White moves first. In general, the pieces move as in orthodox chess, with the center (cell 4) being considered orthogonal "and" diagonal to every adjacent cell. Pawns move one step orthogonally forward and capture
Cheating in chess the piece intended to be played should be touched, and taking more than five minutes to move should simply mean defeat. (As chess clocks are "still" practically unknown even in modern India, it was out of question during the middle of 19th century — the period in which the film is set.) In contrast to the modern methods of cheating by playing moves calculated by machines, in the 18th and 19th centuries, the public were hoaxed by the opposite deception in which machines played moves of hidden humans. The first and most famous of the chess automaton hoaxes was The