Game Overview: All Queens Chess, or I Can't Believe It's Not Chess

I don't know about you, but I tend to groan when I see "chess" in the name of a new game release. From past talks with chess fans, I know that they rarely want to play anything other than chess — especially chess-byproducts such as designs on a 10x10 board with new pieces or the introduction of special power cards that "shake up" traditional chess play — and from my perspective as a barely competent visitor to the world of chess, I find such designs uninspiring.

Thankfully All Queens Chess from Rudell Design and ThinkFun is chess in name only, something to get grandma to pick it up off the shelf on its way to the birthday table. Yes, your pieces move like queens, but your goal is simply to place four of them in a row — and with the board being only 25 squares, the elbowing for space starts immediately.

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Game Overview: All Queens Chess, or I Can&#039;t Believe It&#039;s Not Chess

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