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English
Etymology
From ortho- + chess, probably as a clipping of orthodox chess.
Pronunciation
Noun
orthochess (uncountable)
- (chess variants) The conventional game and rules of chess.
1974, Phillip Cohen, “Chessworld: Magazine Review”, in The Gamesletter, volume 13, number 1/2, Don Miller, page 10:Problems of this sort have been exhaustively dealt with for orthochess (see A Guide to Fairy Chess, p. 39, for tables of results); Haas here presents 59 positions showing his best results for all possible moves, type A.
1992 June, Les Roselle, “What is a Nost?”, in Chess Life, volume 47, number 6, US Chess Federation, →ISBN:Avalanche chess is the same as orthochess, except that every move consists of two parts: (1) a normal legal chess move; and (2) pushing an opponent's pawn one square straight toward you. That's all there is to it really.
2007, D. B. Pritchard, “Games using an ordinary board and men”, in The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, second edition, John Beasley, →ISBN, page 30:In consequence, Italian domination of Progressive Chess was for many years comparable to that of Soviet domination of orthochess in times past.