Fidchess is an attempt to create a chess-like game for Stonehenge, using just the original parts in the Stonehenge game. Its name comes from the Celtic game Fidchell, which has been called “Celtic Chess”. Fidchess has little to do with Fidchell, except that they are both abstract strategy games. The name of the piece are derived from Celtic numbers, except for "Rigant", which means "Lord" in proto-Celtic.
Number of players: 2
Object of the game: To either capture an opponent's druid or all 10 of the opponent's disks that are used to make up pieces in the game.
Getting Started
Equipment: Stonehenge board (outer track). Outer track is four spaces wide (combining day and night spaces as one space) and 30 spaces round, using spaces 1-8 only.
10 green disks and 10 yellow disks
1 green and 1 yellow figure (Rigants)
Ending the Game
Once a player has either captured their opponent's druid or eliminated their opponent's Oins, Duos, Peths, or Teths (and Quens in Quen variant) from the board, they win the game.