Editing Baroque chess (section)

===Renaissance===
As shogi is to chess, Renaissance is to Baroque—pieces may be revived and reborn. It was invented by Matthew Monchalin in 1975. It is played on a 9×9 board; the arrangement of pieces on White's first rank is: Immobiliser, Long-leaper, Chameleon, Withdrawer, King, Bomb, Resurrector, Pusher, Coordinator. (The arrangement of the pieces on Black's first rank is backwards, so Immobilisers are on a1 and i9.) As in Ultima, White and Black may choose to swap Immobiliser and Coordinator. Captured pieces change sides and can be dropped back into play. The new pieces transform when captured: Pusher becomes Puller and vice versa, while Resurrector becomes Bomb and vice versa. Players may agree to have extra pieces in a queue, awaiting to enter the board. The pieces from Baroque are the same in Renaissance, except that in Renaissance the Long-leaper can only capture one man a turn.<ref name=renaissance>{{cite book
 |last=Pritchard 
 |first=D. B. 
 |author-link=David Pritchard (chess player)
 |editor-last=Beasley
 |editor-first=John
 |title=The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
 |publisher=John Beasley 
 |chapter=§17.9 Multiple forms of capture
 |pages=155–158
 |year=2007
 |isbn=978-0-9555168-0-1}}</ref>

The Resurrector (or Swapper or Ankh){{cn|date=September 2023}} moves like a queen for all ordinary purposes, but for swapping actions must move like a king, trading places with any adjacent piece (both friend or foe), never capturing it.  Consistent with the concept of the Resurrector being a piece wholly incapable of killing, it can also step into any adjacent empty square, and leave behind a previously captured piece ''resurrected'' by placing it in the square just vacated.  Although, seen in that light, though the Resurrector is like a piece of ''life,'' it can be transformed into a 1 square bomb when captured and readmitted to the board - but capable only of ''death''.  Instead of moving, a bomb need merely explode to effect the destruction of both friendly pieces and enemy pieces adjacent to itself, and suiciding in the process.  The destruction of pieces in this way causes all affected to be unrevivable.<ref name=renaissance/>

There are also two more pieces that, like the ''Coordinator,'' are not capable of unassisted capture: the Pusher and the Puller.  They can move like queens for ordinary purposes, but for the purpose of exercising their special powers, they must be adjacent to the affected piece at the start of the turn.  If they begin adjacent to a piece (regardless if friendly or foe), they can push or pull it by 1 square.  For a Pusher, the empty square on the other side must be ''open''<ref name=renaissance/> (except for the unusual circumstance of driving a king into an enemy piece, or an Imitator into a king.){{cn|date=September 2023}} Although the Pushers and Pullers are not capable of capture, their pushing and pulling maneuvers can result in other pieces being forced to make captures, regardless of the captured one being a friendly or enemy piece.{{cn|date=September 2023}} (If a Puller pulls an enemy Puller, then that enemy Puller also pulls a piece along with it.)<ref name=renaissance/>