PlunderChess® Rules... (11) Summary Points Below...

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1. "Plundering" occurs when a chess piece captures an opposing piece and immediately "plunders" or "acquires" additional moving capabilities directly from the piece it just captured, hence, strengthening the capturing piece.

2. Plundering is optional and may be declined by the player making the capture. YES, sometimes you do NOT want to plunder a vest from the spoils of the kill!! The case for NOT plundering would be if you suspect your opponent will immediately capture you back (making a "trade") and acquire the vest you just plundered. (See rule #9 below)

3. When plundering is elected, a "color-coded vest" that corresponds to the moving capabilities being plundered, gets coupled to the chess piece that made the kill. This newly acquired vest, visible to both players, displays the pieces extra moving capabilities for one future move. NOTE: If you are playing PlunderChess® via the game App (available in both AppStore and PlayStore) this plundering benefit is illustrated by the overlaying of a color-coded banner (called "vests") on the piece that makes the capture. The color of the vest acquired corresponds to the powers it just plundered from the captured piece. Vest colors are; green for pawn vest, blue for bishop vest, orange for knight vest, red for rook vest and yellow for queen vest. Each vest, in addition to being color-coded, is labeled according to its powers.

4. The added moving capability provided by a plundered vest may be used one time only on any future move. (I.e., the plundered vest may be used on it's very next move or carried around on the board and used later in the game, but only once.)

5. When a capture takes place, in order for the “capturing” chess piece to plunder a vest, the vest must offer it some type of additional moving benefit or said capturing piece will not be allowed to plunder that vest. (I.e., you will never see a queen wearing a rook vest because a queen already possesses the moving capabilities of a rook and a rook vest provides NO additional moving benefits to the queen.)

6. After a vest is used (one time) to move a chess piece on the board, it is immediately rendered powerless and immediately expunged from play.

7. No more then one plundered vest is allowed to be worn on any one chess piece at a time. (I.e., you will never see a piece wearing two or more vests.)

8. If a chess piece wearing a plundered vest makes another capture (assuming capture was NOT due to its vest power), it may still swap out its unused vest for a freshly captured vest.

9. If you capture a piece that is wearing a vest, you may; a) plunder the vest it wears, or… b) plunder a vest that represents the captured piece, or… c) altogether decline to plunder a vest. Your choice.

10. Vests check automatically and have unlimited checking capabilities! For instance, if a chess piece wearing a vest is moved on the board (by the power of its traditional moves) to a new position whereby the power from the vest is now attacking the opposing king, this is an automatic check. Additionally, the vest that is "automatically checking" the opposing king, IS NOT SURRENDERED because vests have unlimited checking privileges.

11. "Pawn vests" are NOT promotable, only the actual pawn chess pieces are.