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
Shen Yang (chess player) Shen Yang (chess player) Shen Yang (; born January 23, 1989 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese chess player who holds the titles of International master and Woman Grandmaster. Shen Yang plays for Jiangsu chess club in the China Chess League (CCL). In 2001, she won the U-12 Girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Spain. A notable game occurred in the World Team Chess Championship, held in Beersheba, Israel on October–November 2005, where Shen - then rated 2326 - managed to defeat 2652-rated Russian GM Sergei Rublevsky. In the May–June 2006 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin she