Sovereign Chess Sovereign Chess Sovereign Chess is a commercial chess variant designed by Mark Bates and produced by Infinite Pi Games. The game is played on a 16 x 16 board and begins with 112 pieces—a normal complement of white and black pieces (16 each), and 80 other colored pieces (8 each of 10 different colors). The colored pieces are considered “neutral” at the beginning of the game, and can not initially be moved nor captured. The center of the board contains an arrangement of 24 colored squares (2 each in every color, including white and black), which determine control of the
Frank Marshall (chess player) the Queen's Gambit Declined (2...e6), Slav Defense (2...c6), and Queen's Gambit Accepted (2...dxc4). In his famous game against Stepan Levitsky, Marshall concluded with a of his queen, allowing it to be captured three different ways. Although Marshall lost to Capablanca far more often than he won (+2−20=28), he was one of only a few players ever to beat him with the black pieces. Capablanca rarely lost in the endgame. Frank Marshall (chess player) Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players