Board games
Omega Chess
Somac Inc., 1992
Omega Chess is a board game published by Somac Inc. in 1992. It is played with 2 players, from age 8 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 8+
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The box
- Publisher
- Somac Inc.
- Designers
- Michael Escobar, Daniel Macdonald
- Year of release
- 1992
About the game
Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed and released in 1992 by Daniel MacDonald. The game is played on a 10×10 board with four extra squares, each added diagonally adjacent to the corner squares. The game is laid out like standard chess with the addition of a champion in each corner of the 10×10 board and a wizard in each new added corner square.
Part of the reason for adding the new pieces was to equalize the number of jumping pieces with sliding pieces. The wizard was created specially to be a color-bound piece, an analog to the bishop. Because of the symmetry and four additional corners, Omega Chess creates new tactical possibilities, including the possibility of forcing checkmate with two knights.
Omega Chess has garnered endorsements by grandmasters Michael Rohde and Alex Sherzer.Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.