Favor Chess Rules Highlights



  • - The king is not prevented from moving into check. This also means that you cannot cause a stalemate by making one player have no valid moves with their king.
  • - Checkmate occurs when the king is captured, rather than when the king has no escape.
  • - Domain Victory is achieved after a player's king moves to the opponent's back row and is not captured during the opponent's next turn.
  • - En Passant capture with pawns does not exist.
  • - The king can perform a Castle move with any champion on your back row between 3 and 4 spaces away as long as neither piece has moved yet in the game.
  • - White cannot make a move that captures a piece on turn 1.
  • - If a player has no legal moves they will lose the game.
  • - If a player's game time clock reaches 0 they will lose the game. (During their turn, the opponent's game time clocks is not 100% accurate due to server delay)
  • - After 50 turns without a piece being captured, a token removed, or a minion promoting the game will be declared a draw.
  • - After the same position is repeated on the board 3 times, the game will be declared a draw.
  • - Using a token during a player's turn counts as their move unless the token is a 'Quick Play' token.





Favor Chess Army Creation Rules


  • - A 'Standard' army may contain pieces and tokens that total up to 100 favor.
  • - An 'Extended' army may contain pieces and tokens that total up to 200 favor.
  • - Only Standard armies are allowed on the ranked and practice queue ladders, but extended armies may be used in private matches or Ai Skirmish.
  • - Each army must contain exactly 1 king unit.
  • - King units may only be deployed in the back row.
  • - Minions may only be deployed in the front row or reserve.
  • - Champions may only be deployed in the back row or reserve.
  • - An army may only include 2 copies of each champion.
  • - An army may include any number of each minion.
  • - An army may include up to 6 tokens.
  • - An army may include up to 2 of each token.
  • - An army may only include one of a piece or token marked as 'unique'.





You can read the favor chess overview here: Favor Chess Press Kit!