Victrix, a militarized chess game

Next to the former bishops (now political instructors or minesweepers), knights (now cavalry soldiers) and rooks (now artillery) are 18 Red Army men (former pawns). Machine-guns cover the flanks. An airplane soars into the sky from one corner of the board, flying over both its own and enemy troops, and a tank bulldozes its way from the other corner, “making no distinction between colors”... Perhaps inspired by Victrix, some adopted “street versions” of standard chess rules: surrounded by four Red Army men, machine guns could be captured, while the tank that has made it to the last horizontal line entitled the player to add two men to the board. In addition, in case of victory (checkmate signified captivity of the enemy command center), the total value of the remaining pieces on the board was calculated: the more points scored, the more valuable the victory.