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Omegachess Advanced [Board now re-uploaded]

Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed by Daniel MacDonald in Toronto. The game is played on a 10x10 board with an extra square in each of the extreme corners where the wizards are placed at the start of the game. The game is laid out like regular chess with the addition of a "champion" in each corner and a "wizard" diagonally behind each champion.

In 2008, the authors of Omega Chess developed an extension to the game called Omega Chess Advanced.
• A special move was introduced called Guarding. This move is equal to Castling but it is executed by Queen and Rook. For Guarding to be legal, both the Queen and Rook must never have made any previous moves, and there may not be any pieces between them.

• A new piece is introduced called the Fool. Each player owns exactly one.

• The Fool has no starting position on the board. Instead, when a piece makes its first move in the game, its owner may choose to place the Fool at that piece's starting location, or it may be placed if its owners piece has taken anywhere on the board (within 20 moves) in which case the Fool then occupies the originating square of the piece which has just taken. When Castling or Guarding, the Fool can be placed on either of the two available squares.

• The Fool moves and captures like the piece or pawn that the opponent last used. For example, if White moves a Queen, then Black's Fool may move or capture as a Queen.

• The Fool may immobilize an opponent's piece on an orthogonally adjacent square, thus preventing it from moving. An immobilized piece can move again if the Fool moves away or is captured. In addition, an immobilized piece can move if it is also orthogonally adjacent to a friendly Fool.

• The Templar Knight.

The Templar Knight moves like an ordinary Knight, or can move as a Templar

This is the most balanced, playable and intriguing of the variants. The Advanced version of Omega chess which is all but forgotten now has a new lease of life. The notes contain the rules for the game and the two IPADS show the moves of the new pieces, with the exception of the Fool & the Templar Knight which is described in the notes.