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Statistics of won games
white	13192 (50.78 %)
black	12326 (47.44 %)
Draws	459 (1.76 %)

Dark Chess

Dark Chess is very interesting chess variation which is virtually impossible to play on "real" boards because of the "dark" feature - it means that each player can see only a part of the whole board. The squares that are visible to the player must follow one of these conditions:

• A player's piece stands on that square.
• The player can move a piece to that square. This means that he/she can see empty squares that he/she can move to, or an opponent's piece that he/she can capture.
• The square is directly in front of one of player's pawns or it is an adjacent forward diagonal from one of player's pawns.

The following pictures show a game situation from white and black's point of view:

  

The rules are the same as for standard Chess with the following differences:

• There is no check or checkmate. Each player can freely move his/her king to a check position.
• The player who captures the opponent's king, wins the game.

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See also: Chess, Chinese Chess, Japanese Chess, Corner Chess, Fortress Chess, Horde Chess, Loop Chess, Anti Chess, Extinction Chess, Maharajah Chess, Three Checks Chess, Dark Chess, Atomic Chess, Janus Chess, Embassy Chess, Screen Chess, Crazy Screen Chess, Cylinder Chess, Amazon Chess, Berolina Chess, Fischer Random Chess, Legan Chess, Knight Relay Chess, Grand Chess, Capablanca Random Chess, Los Alamos Chess, Ambiguous Chess, Minishogi, Dice Chess, Recycle Chess, Ice Age Chess, Behemoth Chess, Cheshire Cat Chess, Knightmate Chess, Racing Kings, Dice Chess 10x10, Massacre Chess