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The Board

• The game is played on a cube with six 6x6 chess faces.
• Each square is labeled by face and coordinate, such as A-D2.
• White starts on face A. Black starts on face B.
• The current default rule set lets pieces move on their current face and cross onto one connected face in the same move.

Pieces

• Pieces keep their normal chess identities: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, and pawn.
• Rooks move in straight lines across rows and columns, including across legal cube edges.
• Bishops move diagonally and stay on their starting square color, just like standard chess.
• Queens combine rook and bishop movement, so they can attack along straight or diagonal paths.
• Knights jump in L-shapes and can jump over occupied squares.
• Kings move one square in any legal direction, but may not move into check.

Pawns

• Pawns move only in the direction they are facing.
• A pawn can move one square forward, or two squares from its starting position if clear.
• Pawns capture diagonally forward, never backward.
• When a pawn reaches the 4x4 elevation zone on the opposite main face, choose queen, rook, bishop, or knight.

Winning

• Check, checkmate, and stalemate work like chess.
• If your king is in check, your move must remove the check.
• Checkmate wins the game when the checked player has no legal escape.
• In timed games, the player whose clock reaches zero loses on time.

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