Pocket Mutation Chess Pocket Mutation Chess Pocket Mutation Chess is a chess variant invented by Mike Nelson in 2003. In this game a player can take a piece from the board and put it into a "pocket". The piece in the pocket can be put back on the board later. When placing the piece into the pocket the player can "mutate" the piece, i.e. change it to a different piece. The game is one of the "Recognized Chess Variants" at "The Chess Variant Pages". The starting position in this game is the same as in standard chess. Players make moves as in standard
Cubic Chess Cubic Chess Cubic Chess is a chess variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec beginning with an early version (named Echos) in 1977. The game substitutes "cubes" for the chess pieces, where four of the faces of each cube display a different chess piece (pawn, knight, bishop and rook), the two other faces are blank and are orientated to the players. This provides an efficient means (rotating the cube on a square) to change a piece's type. Kings and queens have unique cubes containing only their symbol, effectively behaving as normal. The game begins like standard chess, with a normal 8×8 chessboard,