New invention of chess game form traditional chess of South East Asian Countries. The game adapts from Makruk (Thai Chess), Ouk Chatrang (Cambodian Chess) and Sittuyin (Burmese Chess). Those have very similar chess style and have some minor difference.
The game is declared on March 14th 2011 at ASEAN-Chess council, Bangkok, Thailand.
The game applies some Chess's rules to those tradition chess variants in ASEAN (such as Ouk Chatrang, Makruk, Sittuyin) for easier to settle the tournaments and record the results.
Some different rules between Chess and ASEAN-chess such as
- Bishop is called as Elephant
- Pawns start at the 3rd row and can be promoted to be Queen (and only Queen) at the 8th row
- Queen can move only 1 diagonal space
- Bishop (Elephant) can move 1 space diagonally or 1 space forward
- No Castling
- Use counting rules when neither side has any pawns and both players agree to use counting rules
Note: ASEAN stand for "Association of South East Asia Nations"