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
Li Chao (chess player) Li Chao (chess player) Li Chao (; born 21 April 1989 in Taiyuan, Shanxi) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster and Asian champion in 2013. In 2007, he became China's 23rd Grandmaster at the age of 18. He has been a second/assistant for fellow Chinese chess Grandmaster Wang Yue on several occasions; the two are good friends having known each other since they were children. In chess circles he is sometimes known as "Li Chao b" since there is a second Chinese chess player named Li Chao. Li Chao started to play chess at the age of six. In 2005 he