ChessWithPass: How The Blue Monkey Became a Genius. Missing Move.

Sometimes the strongest moveis not to move.In ChessWithPass,each player has the right, once per game,to skip a turnusing the Pass Piece.A new elementnever before seen in the history of chess.You don't make a move -you hand the position to your opponent.And in that moment,the game breaks.Plans collapse.Familiar continuations disappear.Mistakes reveal themselves.You begin to seethat not every move is necessary.And that sometimes,a move is the mistake.ChessWithPass does not simplify chess.It adds what has never existed before:the rightnot to make the unnecessary move.For over 1,500 years,players have felt this moment -but were forced to move.Now, they are not.This is not just a new rule.It is a beginner-friendly, easy-to-understand thinking systemthat works at any skill level.And perhaps,this is the hidden mechanism of chess -one that, through the game,leads to personal genius.

Pages: 187, Paperback, ChessWithPass Publishing