HOW TO PLAY: THE APP

All income from Nc Chess Apps are being donated at the end of the current year to educational centres in order to promote chess as a sport and as an educational tool. 

Available on line for Android, Iphone and Windows. In order to play Neoclassical chess you will need a chess set and a present human opponent.

The Apps (Nc Standard y Nc The Suite) are already available in all major mobile and tablet platforms. 

The App will give you the starting position and the sequence of initial moves that lead to it.
Then, just play chess with your opponent !

By requesting “START GAME” both players commit to begin the game from the resulting position.
The only difference between Neoclassical chess and classical chess is that in Neoclassical chess the first three moves are obtained by this program, which provides a single, worldwide standard for Nc chess. Nevertheless, in Nc variants (Nc The Suite) the black moves first and the game starts in move third or fourth for black, or even further.
There is a “Number of Boards” option (1 to 10), with which you can easily organize a team match or a tournament with several Nc chess games that will be played simultaneously.

THE STANDARD 

Play Neoclassical Chess (“Nc Chess”) with this app !

You will also need a real chess board and chess set, as well as a physically present human opponent. The app provides the initial position for play.

Neoclassical Chess is a chess application for players of all levels, from learning beginner to dedicated amateur to players of the highest competitive levels. It opens the door to an exciting “new classical” chess.

In Neoclassical Chess all rules are exactly as in classical chess, except that play starts after three full moves from White and Black, those of a game taken at random from a large, carefully selected database of recent chess master games. As a consequence, openings appear in proportion to their frequency in master practice, providing a single worldwide standard for play. The app provides the initial position and the moves leading to it just before the start of play.

Neoclassical chess is the domain of OTB (Over the Board) play, of live chess performance and creative play. It is also the only chess variant ever invented that fully respects the history of the game. That is why we say it is more than a variant: it is an “evolution” of chess, but it’s above all chess.

To learn more, visit www.neoclassicalchess.com

Please see also details of the license for this app, essentially valid for any educational, research or personal use, in all cases in face-to-face play, while excluding commercial use or distribution, or its use in online play. Most non-commercial uses will however be permitted, and exemptions will be granted for certain types of commercial use, under guidelines to be published from time to time on the above website.

Any changes and updates to the Nc Chess Reference Collection of game starts, which provides the reference will be provided for free up to the year 2018 through free app updates.

THE SUITE – INGLÉS

Play Neoclassical Chess (“Nc Chess”),  with this app, and also its variants Neoclassical Black and Neoclassical Training !

You will also need a real chess board and chess set, as well as a physically present human opponent. The app provides the initial position for play.

Neoclassical Chess is a chess application for players of all levels, from learning beginner to dedicated amateur to players of the highest competitive levels. It opens the door to an exciting “new classical” chess.

In Neoclassical Chess all rules are exactly as in classical chess, except that play starts after three full moves (in the recommended Standard version) from White and Black, those of a game taken at random from a large, carefully selected database of recent chess master games. As a consequence, openings appear in proportion to their frequency in master practice, providing a single worldwide standard for play. The app provides the initial position and the moves leading to it just before the start of play.

In “The Suite” app, besides the Standard version, three additional, exciting non-standard variants of Neoclassical chess are provided.

In the two Black variants of Nc Chess, Black starts play (i.e. chooses initially) compensating partially White’s “initial move” included in the position. Play starts either after three-and-a-half moves in the preferred Nc Black 3.5 variant, i.e. after the fourth White move, or after two-and-a-half moves in the Nc Black 2.5 variant. Also, the Nc Training variant is provided where play starts (by White) after 5 full moves, which is specially interesting for non-competitive, purely fun play, and for advanced beginners, as it disincentivizes play based on a narrow preparation of opening traps and tricks and promotes both classical and neoclassical chess advancement.

The rest is similar to the Standard version.

Neoclassical chess is the domain of OTB (Over the Board) play, of live chess performance and creative play. It is also the only chess variant ever invented that fully respects the history of the game. That is why we say it is more than a variant: it is an “evolution” of chess, but it’s above all chess.

To learn more, visit www.neoclassicalchess.com

Please see also details of the license for this app, essentially valid for any educational, research or personal use, in all cases in face-to-face play, while excluding commercial use or distribution, or its use in online play. Most non-commercial uses will however be permitted, and exemptions will be granted for certain types of commercial use, under guidelines to be published from time to time on the above website.

Any changes and updates to the Nc Chess Reference Collection of game starts, which provides the reference will be provided for free up to the year 2018 through free app updates.