Dice chess so he must pass. White rolls a two and a four, and plays 5.Ng5#, ending the game. (See final position at right.) There is no standard set of rules for Dice Chess, and so games called 'Dice Chess' may have different rules to the ones given here. For example, in the version of 'dice chess' given on the BrainKing site: BrainKing also provides a variant on 10×10 board with three kings on each side. To win you need to capture all enemy kings. All other rules are the same as for the 8×8 version. The intention of adding two more
Dice chess kings is to reduce the elements of chance in the game. Another form of dice chess is "Vegas Fun Chess", whose rules are described here. That site also indicates that "Pritchard's Encyclopedia of Chess Variants contains descriptions of seven versions of what he calls 'Dice Chess'." John Gollon, in his book "Chess Variations: Ancient, Regional, and Modern", notes three ways in which dice may be used in connection with a game of chess. The most common is similar to that described in the preceding sections. A second way to use dice is to have each player roll one die on