Method of Play The game can be played either as a skill game or with dice for divination. And once the King/ is moved from his corner square that he originally occupies with a second piece at the beginning of play, the neither he nor the other piece can be moved back to share that corner square again. Rather than the simple movement of traditional chess, the movement of four sets of pieces may be described as an arraying of activity that works in four dimensions.
From which it results that she can check or control only 16 out of the 64 squares, including the one on which she stands, and these squares to which she can move are all of her own color. The move of the Queen in this scheme is unlike that of any piece in modern chess, for she controls only the 3rd square, from herself, in any direction perpendicularly, horizontally, or diagonally, and can leap over any intervening piece. The moves of the other pieces excepting the Queen are the same as those of modern chess.
The rule of en passant also does not apply here, although the regular method of taking with pawn, via the diagonal, either to right or left, holds equally well. Board Setup 1 of 2 Fire Earth Air Water Air Water Fire Earth Row Board Setup 2 of 2 Fire Earth Air Water Row King/ Row n Air Water Fire Earthĩ Movement of the Pieces The pawns move only one square at a time, and not two for the first move as in modern chess. When the pieces are all set, the outer arms of the swastika are found. For the vertical placement on all boards, the corner letter of the Tetragrammaton is followed by the succeeding letter and placed on the fourth square down or up depending on which quadrant you re working. The Fire and Earth read the Tetragrammaton horizontally from left to right in the upper quarters and from right to left in the lower quarters. From there, the pieces are placed according to the spelling of the Tetragrammaton as follows:Ĩ The Air and Water read the Tetragrammaton horizontally from right to left in the upper quarters and left to right in the lower quarters. Therefore, (representing the element of Spirit) is placed on the four corners of the board, along with a second piece corresponding to the letter of the Tetragrammaton for the element attributed to that angle. place on the board is always on the outer corner of the board. And note that a piece or pawn attacking the corner square is attacking both pieces on that square.
The other four pieces have pawns that are also the personal servants and vice-gerents of the piece they stand before when the board is properly setup. It will be noted that the King/ has no pawns. The pieces in the Earth Angle are painted black and those in the Fire quarter are painted red. The pieces placed in the Air quarter of the board, there-fore, are yellow and those in the Water Angle are blue. Placement of the Pieces All pieces are painted in their corresponding elemental color for each of the four sets. The Ptah used for divination placed on any square in the angle being played by the Querent in divination play. She represents the Princess of the Tarot also equivalent to the Ace. Ameshet, human-headed, /Rook s pawn.ħ Sekmet. Ahephi, ape-headed, Anoueris/Bishop's pawn. The s in this Enochian chess represent the Godforms of the four sons of the Canopic Gods as follows: Fire. The Enochian Chess pieces correspond to the Aces and Honours of the Holy Tarot and the major pieces of traditional chess, as presented in the chart below: Enochian Chess Piece Letter of Tetragrammato n Traditiona l Chess Piece Holy Tarot Alchemica l Element King Ace Spirit Heh Queen Queen Water Yod Knight Knight Fire Vav Bishop Prince Air Nephthys Heh (final) Rook Princess Earth The pawns are the servant or viceroy of the force connecting the elemental potency of the Ace in the Holy Tarot with each of the other forces generated by the major pieces on the Enochian chessboard. There are also four of Ptah one for each element in divination. Therefore, each set of pieces in Enochian Chess consists of a King, Queen, Knight, Bishop and Rook known to traditional chess, along with four pawns. 4 Enochian Chess Pieces The chess pieces were anciently small figures of the Egyptian Gods presenting the operation of the Divine Forces in Nature.
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