Duchess(tm) brief rules

Rules in Brief

Duchess^TM is a multi-player Chess variant fo two to six players.

In addition to the King, Queen, Bishop, Knight and Rook there are two combination pieces, called the Duchess (bishop + knight) and the Fortress (rook + knight), as well as the Wizard, which moves like a King and also enables pieces next to it to move `by teleportation' in a manner explained more fully below. Pawns can move forward, backwards or sideways and take on any diagonal. They promote by moving to the central "square" (which is really hexagonal).

Full details may be found in the complete rules

Wizard

Suppose you have a piece which is on a square next to your own Wizard, or next to one of your partners' Wizards. You may move that piece by teleportation to any other square next to your own Wizard, or next to one of your partners' Wizards. You can also move the Wizard itself by teleportation to any square next to one of your partners' Wizards.

In the accompanying diagram, a piece on any of the dotted squares may move by teleportation to any other dotted square.