If you’re looking for a new game to play check out jack chess! This game is a combination of blackjack and chess. Melody and I came up with this one day as we sat down to play a round of chess together. It just so happened that I had stored a deck of cards in my chess set box and we decided to try and use it with our chess game. Hence jack chess was born!
To set up the game:
find your favorite chess partner
grab a chess set
grab a deck of cards
Rules:
Play like regular chess until one player goes to take another’s piece. Once that happens you play a round of black jack to determine which piece wins the spot. If the attacker wins it takes the spot as usual, if the defender wins then the piece that attacked gets taken off the board and the defender’s piece gets to stay in that spot. Do a round of black jack every time a piece is attacked. If the black jack is a draw, do another round until the winner is determined by the blackjack round.
Playing this way creates a bit of chaos as pawns win just by luck over higher hitting pieces and yes it is possible to get into checkmate and still win.