Esteemed Player.....

As your humble Archivist, I present here the official rules of play for the Game.

Rather than reproduce the rules of Chess here, I will simply make the following two points:
(1) all that new Players must know about the rules of Chess are
    (a) how the pieces are set up on the board and
    (b) how each piece moves on the board; and,
(2) there are on-line reference sources by which new Players may acquire the formal rules of chess.

It is suggested that new Players print out these rules and their accompanying charts for reference during play.

Rules of Play

1. COMPATIBILITY WITH TRADITIONAL GAME OF CHESS.

   All rules of the game of Chess apply except as modified in these rules.

2. EXOTERIC MOVES AND ESOTERIC MOVES.

   Every move begins with an Exoteric Move. That Square is termed the Exoteric Square.

   Half of all Exoteric Moves result in an Esoteric Move, which automatically transfers the Piece to another Square on the Board. That Square is termed the Esoteric Square.

   A Piece cannot be moved into any Square occupied by another Piece of its own color.

   Whenever an Exoteric Move does not result in an Esoteric Move, all the traditional rules of moves apply.

3. CAPTURE.

   Your opponent's Piece is captured if it occupies the Esoteric Square your Piece moves into.

   Your opponent's piece is not captured if it occupies the Exoteric Square your Piece moves through on its way to the Esoteric Square (see Pawn Exceptions, below).

   Whenever an Exoteric Move does not result in an Esoteric Move, all the traditional rules of capture apply.

4. END OF GAME.

   There is no Check nor Checkmate in the Game. The Game ends only when a Player's King has been captured by an opponent's Esoteric Move. Any Piece making an Esoteric Move into an Esoteric Square occupied by an opponent's King immediately captures the King and ends the Game.

   The King cannot be captured nor threatened by any Exoteric Move (see Pawn Exceptions, below).

   Games in which neither Player is able to capture the opponent's King are pronounced a draw.

5. KNIGHT EXCEPTION.

   All pieces, except for the Knight, "pass through" other pieces (regardless of color) that stand between the Exoteric Square and the Esoteric Square. Knights cannot make an Esoteric Move if any Piece, regardless of color, stands between its Exoteric Square and Esoteric Square.

6. PAWN EXCEPTIONS.
   1. The Pawn captures an opponent's Piece, including the King, when it makes an Exoteric Move resulting in an Esoteric Move if, and only if, the following conditions are met:
      1. The Exoteric Move is into the Player's 7th rank;
      2. The capture is made according to the traditional rules of Chess (one diagonal square move forward into a square occupied by opponent's piece); and,
      3. The Esoteric Move is legal (a Piece of the same color does not occupy the Esoteric Square).
   2. The Pawn cannot make an Exoteric Move into a Square directly in front of it if that Square is occupied by an opponent's Piece: it can only make Exoteric Moves into Squares occupied by the opponent's Pieces via the traditional rule of Pawn capturing (one diagonal square move only when occupied by opponent's piece). This rule does not affect Moves where the Exoteric Square in front of the Pawn is unoccupied.

      As in traditional rules of Chess, the Pawn has the option of moving either one or two squares only on its move from the second rank.

      There is no promotion of the pawn in the Game. Upon reaching its seventh rank (opponent's second rank), the Pawn returns to the first rank (opponent's eighth rank) and continues play from there as a Pawn.

7. RULES DELETED FROM TRADITIONAL RULES OF CHESS.

   The following rules are deleted from play:
   Castling.
   En passant.
   Promotion of the pawn.
   Check/Mate.
   

8. DEFINITIONS.
   1. Exoteric Move: The movement of a piece into a square, all of which occur according to the traditional rules of chess (except for the four moves deleted from play). Half of all such possible moves result in an Esoteric Move: in such cases, any potential capture of an opponent's piece occupying that Exoteric Square is invalidated.
   2. Exoteric Square: The square into which an Exoteric Move is made.
   3. Esoteric Move: The movement of a piece that occurs when it is moved into an Exoteric Square it cannot occupy - - in which case it is immediately transferred to its correct Square. An Esoteric Move is illegal if its Esoteric Square is occupied by a piece of the same color. If the Esoteric Square is occupied by an opponent's piece, then it is captured and removed from the board.
   4. Esoteric Square: The square into which an Esoteric Move is made.

9. OFFICIAL ESOTERIC MOVES.

   The following 8 charts detail the official Esoteric Moves of the Game.

   Moves which do not result in Esoteric Moves are not depicted here.

   The numbers below refer to the official numbering (0 to 63) of the 64 Squares of the Game Board, an example of which follows these charts.

   Each of the 8 charts below is divided into 8 sections, each one of which is identified by the number (0 to 63) of an Exoteric Square.

   Each of the 8 sections is divided into 2 columns. The column on the left gives the notation for the Color (B = Black, W = White) of the Piece (K = King, Q = Queen, B = Bishop, N = Knight, R = Rook, P = Pawn) that triggers an Esoteric Move within the specified Exoteric Square. The column on the right gives the number (0 to 63) of the Esoteric Square into which the specified Piece moves.

By way of example:

1. Assuming we wished to determine whether an Esoteric Move resulted from moving a White Queen into Square 5, we would locate the section labeled Square 5 in the first chart and then check to see if "WQ" is listed or not. We see "BQ" in its place, so we know that moving the White Queen into Square 5 does not trigger an Esoteric Move to another Square.

2. On the other hand, we see that moving a White Bishop into Square 5 produces an Esoteric Move to Square 1, that moving a Black Knight into the same Square triggers an Esoteric Move of the Knight to Square 13, and so on.

   Esoteric Moves attributed to Pawns in the second and seventh charts below are italicized because they represent Moves which cannot occur within the Rules of Play for the Game Level. They are included because these are Moves which do occur when Self-Realization and Artistic-Creative Level Games are played independent of the Rules for the Game Level.

OFFICIAL ESOTERIC MOVES OF THE GAME

SQUARE 0		SQUARE 1		SQUARE 2		SQUARE 3		SQUARE 4		SQUARE 5		SQUARE 6		SQUARE 7
BK	1	WK	0	BK	3	WK	2	BK	5	WK	4	BK	7	WK	6
BQ	2	BQ	3	WQ	0	WQ	1	BQ	6	BQ	7	WQ	4	WQ	5
BB	4	BB	5	BB	6	BB	7	WB	0	WB	1	WB	2	WB	3
BN	8	BN	9	BN	10	BN	11	BN	12	BN	13	BN	14	BN	15
BR	16	BR	17	BR	18	BR	19	BR	20	BR	21	BR	22	BR	23
BP	32	BP	33	BP	34	BP	35	BP	36	BP	37	BP	38	BP	39

SQUARE 8		SQUARE 9		SQUARE 10		SQUARE 11		SQUARE 12		SQUARE 13		SQUARE 14		SQUARE 15
BK	9	WK	8	BK	11	WK	10	BK	13	WK	12	BK	15	WK	14
BQ	10	BQ	11	WQ	8	WQ	9	BQ	14	BQ	15	WQ	12	WQ	13
BB	12	BB	13	BB	14	BB	15	WB	8	WB	9	WB	10	WB	11
WN	0	WN	1	WN	2	WN	3	WN	4	WN	5	WN	6	WN	7
BR	24	BR	25	BR	26	BR	27	BR	28	BR	29	BR	30	BR	31
BP	40	BP	41	BP	42	BP	43	BP	44	BP	45	BP	46	BP	47

SQUARE 16		SQUARE 17		SQUARE 18		SQUARE 19		SQUARE 20		SQUARE 21		SQUARE 22		SQUARE 23
BK	17	WK	16	BK	19	WK	18	BK	21	WK	20	BK	23	WK	22
BQ	18	BQ	19	WQ	16	WQ	17	BQ	22	BQ	23	WQ	20	WQ	21
BB	20	BB	21	BB	22	BB	23	WB	16	WB	17	WB	18	WB	19
BN	24	BN	25	BN	26	BN	27	BN	28	BN	29	BN	30	BN	31
WR	0	WR	1	WR	2	WR	3	WR	4	WR	5	WR	6	WR	7
BP	48	BP	49	BP	50	BP	51	BP	52	BP	53	BP	54	BP	55

SQUARE 24		SQUARE 25		SQUARE 26		SQUARE 27		SQUARE 28		SQUARE 29		SQUARE 30		SQUARE 31
BK	25	WK	24	BK	27	WK	26	BK	29	WK	28	BK	31	WK	30
BQ	26	BQ	27	WQ	24	WQ	25	BQ	30	BQ	31	WQ	28	WQ	29
BB	28	BB	29	BB	30	BB	31	WB	24	WB	25	WB	26	WB	27
WN	16	WN	17	WN	18	WN	19	WN	20	WN	21	WN	22	WN	23
WR	8	WR	9	WR	10	WR	11	WR	12	WR	13	WR	14	WR	15
BP	56	BP	57	BP	58	BP	59	BP	60	BP	61	BP	62	BP	63

SQUARE 32		SQUARE 33		SQUARE 34		SQUARE 35		SQUARE 36		SQUARE 37		SQUARE 38		SQUARE 39
BK	33	WK	32	BK	35	WK	34	BK	37	WK	36	BK	39	WK	38
BQ	34	BQ	35	WQ	32	WQ	33	BQ	38	BQ	39	WQ	36	WQ	37
BB	36	BB	37	BB	38	BB	39	WB	32	WB	33	WB	34	WB	35
BN	40	BN	41	BN	42	BN	43	BN	44	BN	45	BN	46	BN	47
BR	48	BR	49	BR	50	BR	51	BR	52	BR	53	BR	54	BR	55
WP	0	WP	1	WP	2	WP	3	WP	4	WP	5	WP	6	WP	7

SQUARE 40		SQUARE 41		SQUARE 42		SQUARE 43		SQUARE 44		SQUARE 45		SQUARE 46		SQUARE 47
BK	41	WK	40	BK	43	WK	42	BK	45	WK	44	BK	47	WK	46
BQ	42	BQ	43	WQ	40	WQ	41	BQ	46	BQ	47	WQ	44	WQ	45
BB	44	BB	45	BB	46	BB	47	WB	40	WB	41	WB	42	WB	43
WN	32	WN	33	WN	34	WN	35	WN	36	WN	37	WN	38	WN	39
BR	56	BR	57	BR	58	BR	59	BR	60	BR	61	BR	62	BR	63
WP	8	WP	9	WP	10	WP	11	WP	12	WP	13	WP	14	WP	15

SQUARE 48		SQUARE 49		SQUARE 50		SQUARE 51		SQUARE 52		SQUARE 53		SQUARE 54		SQUARE 55
BK	49	WK	48	BK	51	WK	50	BK	53	WK	52	BK	55	WK	54
BQ	50	BQ	51	WQ	48	WQ	49	BQ	54	BQ	55	WQ	52	WQ	53
BB	52	BB	53	BB	54	BB	55	WB	48	WB	49	WB	50	WB	51
BN	56	BN	57	BN	58	BN	59	BN	60	BN	61	BN	62	BN	63
WR	32	WR	33	WR	34	WR	35	WR	36	WR	37	WR	38	WR	39
WP	16	WP	17	WP	18	WP	19	WP	20	WP	21	WP	22	WP	23

SQUARE 56		SQUARE 57		SQUARE 58		SQUARE 59		SQUARE 60		SQUARE 61		SQUARE 62		SQUARE 63
BK	57	WK	56	BK	59	WK	58	BK	61	WK	60	BK	63	WK	62
BQ	58	BQ	61	WQ	56	WQ	57	BQ	62	BQ	63	WQ	60	WQ	61
BB	60	BB	61	BB	62	BB	63	WB	56	WB	57	WB	58	WB	59
WN	48	WN	49	WN	50	WN	51	WN	52	WN	53	WN	54	WN	55
WR	40	WR	41	WR	42	WR	43	WR	44	WR	45	WR	46	WR	47
WP	24	WP	25	WP	26	WP	27	WP	28	WP	29	WP	30	WP	31

10. OFFICIAL GAME BOARD.

Following is the official Game Board: it includes the numbering of each of the 64 Squares as well as the designations for the 8 Vertical and Horizontal ranks, which detail the integration of the Chess, I Ching, and Dyadic Mathematics Correlation.

Two views of the Game Board are presented below: the first is the Board as seen from the perspective of the Player playing the White Pieces and the second, from the perspective of the Player playing the Black Pieces.

For Use By Players Playing White Pieces - -

For Use By Players Playing Black Pieces - -

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