Displacement chess is a family of chess variants, in which a few pieces are transposed in initial chess position. The main goal of these variants to negate the book knowledge of chess openings. The following variations were tried in master or grandmaster tournaments:
- White's king and queen are transposed. This arrangement was tried in a correspondence tournament in 1935 with participation of Keres, a chess grandmaster.
- Queen's knight is transposed with king's bishop (so that both bishops are on the queen side and both knight are on king's side. This setup, sometimes called Mongredian, shown on the diagram at right. Is is named so by a tournament in Mongredian in 1868, in which several strong British chess players took part, including Blackburne. According to Pritchard, this is one of the most popular forms of displacement chess.
- The knights and bishops are transposed.
- The rooks and bishops are transposed. This array was suggested by Capablanca after his match with Lasker, but was quickly forgotten.
Refrences
- D.B. Pritchard (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (p.88). ISBN 0952414201.
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