orthochess

English

Etymology

From ortho- +‎ chess, probably as a clipping of orthodox chess.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɔːθəˈt͡ʃɛs/, /ˌɔːθəʊ̯ˈt͡ʃɛs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɔɹθəˈt͡ʃɛs/, /ˌɔɹθoʊ̯ˈt͡ʃɛs/

Noun

orthochess (uncountable)

1. (chess variants) The conventional game and rules of chess.
   • 1974, Phillip Cohen, “Chessworld: Magazine Review”, in The Gamesletter‎^[1], volume 13, number 1/2, Don Miller, page 10:

     Problems of this sort have been exhaustively dealt with for orthochess (see A Guide to Fairy Chess, p. 39, for tables of results); Haas here presents 59 positions showing his best results for all possible moves, type A.

   • 1992 June, Les Roselle, “What is a Nost?”, in Chess Life‎^[2], volume 47, number 6, US Chess Federation, →ISBN:

     Avalanche chess is the same as orthochess, except that every move consists of two parts: (1) a normal legal chess move; and (2) pushing an opponent's pawn one square straight toward you. That's all there is to it really.

   • 2007, D. B. Pritchard, “Games using an ordinary board and men”, in The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants‎^[3], second edition, John Beasley, →ISBN, page 30:

     In consequence, Italian domination of Progressive Chess was for many years comparable to that of Soviet domination of orthochess in times past.