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Bosworth

#645BGG ↗

1998 · 2-4 players · 60min · weight 2.10 · 382 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
645
Name
Bosworth
Year
1998
Rank
15016
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.0968
Num weights
31
Bayes avg
5.53768
Average
5.82013
Users rated
382
Num owned
786
Wanting
6
Wishing
29
Num comments
202
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Grid Movement
Categories (1)
Abstract Strategy
Description (858 chars)

Bosworth is essentially a chess variant for up to 4 players. The pieces are the same as chess (8 pawns, 2 knights, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, a king, and a queen), but they are represented as disks so that they can be drawn randomly from a pile. Players begin the game with 4 pawns in their edge of the board or "field camps" and four pieces from their draw pile as their hand. On each turn, a player must move or capture with one piece, fill empty spaces in their field camp with a piece from their hand, and then draw to bring their hand up to four pieces. Pieces move and capture just like in chess, except for pawns, which can move sideways and capture in any diagonal direction, and kings, which can capture their own pieces to escape check. As in chess, the object is to checkmate all opponent's kings. Online Play GameTable Online (real-time)

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.