Chess variant including additional player piece and method of play

A method of playing an expanded chess-like game for use by a first player against a second player, comprising the steps of:

• providing a game board or facsimile with alternate light-colored and dark-colored squares, arranged in adjacent vertical and horizontal rows, each of said rows including said alternate light-colored and dark-colored squares, each square offset with respect to the similarly-colored square of the adjacent row, to form a checkerboard pattern of bilaterally alternating colored squares, said game board having at least eight and fewer than eleven horizontal rows and vertical columns;
• providing a plurality of playing pieces, including one set of light-colored pieces for a first player and one set of dark-colored pieces for a second player, each set of pieces comprising six to ten Pawns, one King, one Queen, two Rooks, two Bishops, two Knights, and two of a new separate game piece which is visually distinguishable from the others;
• formatting predetermined rules of movement for play wherein each of the Kings, the Queens, the Rooks, the Bishops, the Knights, and the Pawns have the same rules of movement and capturing as the corresponding piece in standard chess;
• and formatting a set of predetermined rules of movement for the new separate game pieces wherein it is permitted to move in a complete set and subset of eight potential moves that include a movement of two squares in an orthogonal direction and movement of one square in a diagonal direction provided that square is unoccupied by another piece of the same color, wherein the new separate game pieces are permitted to capture an opponent's piece on a complete set and subset of these eight potential moves;
• wherein the new separate game pieces include a grooved top portion representing a visor.