Balbo's game

English

An image demonstrating the starting position of this particular chess variant.

Etymology

Invented by G. Balbo in 1974.

Proper noun

Balbo's game

1. A variant of the game of chess, with a novel board shape with 70 squares, and each player commanding a full chess army minus one pawn. There is no castling, and promotion squares are specially defined.

Further reading

• Balbo's game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia