Chess game variant and method of playing the same

A method of playing a two-dimensional board game, the game having a single tier playing space and multiple playing pieces positioned on the single tier playing space, the playing pieces having roles defined by advancing, capturing, and converting capabilities, the method comprising:

• providing a plurality of playing pieces for two players, each of the playing pieces being capable of advancing, capturing, and conversion;
• one of each player's playing pieces being an ultimate piece;
• the remaining playing pieces for both players being role-altering playing pieces;
• each said role-altering playing piece being configured with a base portion that confronts the playing space, and a removable and convertible top member having a universal post configured to be seated into an upper portion of the base portion of each playing piece;
• wherein all of the playing pieces are further defined by two distinct visual characteristics with one half of the playing pieces having one visual characteristic denoting ownership to a first of the two players and other half having a second visual characteristic denoting ownership to a second of the two players;
• and further wherein each role-altering playing piece has its base portion and convertible top member of the same visual characteristic in a first role and the convertible top member is configured to be replaced with another convertible top member of the other visual characteristic in a second role to form a hybrid characteristic and denote a change of ownership from one player to the other yet still having the same advancing, capturing, and converting capabilities as the playing piece had prior to conversion;
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• altering between the first and second roles whenever the role-altering playing pieces participate in capture and conversion and wherein role altering takes place when one player's playing piece captures and converts the other player's playing piece;
• wherein the playing space further comprises a board arranged with 64 bi-tonal squares arranged into one large square having eight rows and eight columns with one tone adjacent another tone forming a uniformly arranged bi-tonal grid, and wherein advancement, capturing, and conversion takes place on the squares of the playing space;
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• wherein each player is given 16 playing pieces and each player's playing pieces occupy only one original square on an original column and an original row prior to advancement and advancement takes place when a playing piece is moved to another square;
• and wherein capturing and converting takes place where an advancing playing piece advances to a square that is already occupied with the other player's playing piece.