Diagonal chess: Update on diagonal chess rules

Submitted by Super User on 21. February 2021.

Dear readers. Due to numerous inquiries and requests for a more detailed description of the Diagonal chess rules we have decided on the article "A scientist from the Cracow University of Technology developed a new kind of chess game - diagonal chess "  to write an update. 

There was already chess for three players, played on a three-sided chess board, and chess for four players, played on a chess board with 160 pieces (instead of the traditional 64). Chess games were played on 80 or 100 boards. In its day, Polish hexagonal chess pieces with hexagonal squares became popular. It seemed that everything in this field had already been invented. Zbigniew Kokosiński, lecturer at the Technical University of Cracow, however, had a completely new idea. He has that Diagonal chess designed.

Image and text sources: www.nasza.pk.edu.pl Nasza Politechnika nr. 12 (208) grudzień 2020

A scientist from Cracow University of Technology developed a new type of chess game - diagonal chess

Submitted by Super User on 03 January 2021.

Zbigniew Kokosiński, PhD, professor at the Cracow University of Technology, has developed a new way of playing the game of chess - that Diagonal chess. As read on the university website, the new game method is more interesting than traditional chess and also enables beginners to play with more experienced partners. As is so often the case, Professor Kokosiński made his discovery by accident.
 
The author of the solution checked the website The Chess Variant Pages to see that no one had come up with such an idea yet. That's how it went Diagonal chess the scientist registered it as the latest version of the game. Dr. Kokosiński works in the Automation and Information Technology Department. He learned to play chess at the age of 8. The specialist did not intend to make a revolution in the royal game. When the university introduced the obligation to work remotely due to a pandemic, it occurred to him on April 8th that chess could be played in a completely different way.

Image source: Politechnika Krakowska / Nasza Politechnika