THE CHESS WIZARD

love to play strategy games, and European Chess and Chinese Chess rank right up at the top of my list of favorites. Having passed on my love for these games to my children, it was only natural that, when I told my oldest son Andrew about the 84 Spaces Contest, he would say "Let's enter the contest, Dad!" We had tossed around ideas for themes and pieces for our own chess variation for some time, and we finally came up with Wizard Chess (so named because of the "magical" move allowed to the Wizard-King, and probably influenced by the fact that Andrew was reading The Lord Of The Rings at the time!). We have play-tested it on various size boards and with various piece combinations and starting configurations (we even have a two level, 3D version we call Advanced Wizard Chess with flying Dragons, Eagles, and a Pegasus or two, but it exceeded the 84 spaces allowed for the current contest!) and we settled on the version that we present to you. If you like the Big Three (European Chess, Chinese Chess and Shogi) I am sure you will quickly see how we borrow from each. We hope that you will enjoy playing Wizard Chess as much as we do.