Our Goal
Our Goal at Archers Chess© Limited is to produce and promote exceptional quality, heirloom
boards and pieces of our new chess game, Archers Chess©, and to have our game played in homes across Canada and around the world. We want to be known as Canada's finest chess set manufacturer. We believe our game will act as a family link, between countless generations, being played, cherished, and handed down for hundreds of years. Your grandchildren will be playing their grandchildren, on the board you are playing on today.
Our Game
The concept, pieces, and rules for Archers Chess©, were invented, copyrighted and trademarked
by Michael W. Archer, in the spring and summer of 2001, the first year of the new millenium, in London, Ontario, Canada. (final rules variation completed in 2007) Archers Chess© is played on a 10x10 square board, we have added room for our new piece, Longbow™. He sits between the Bishops and the King and Queen, and there are 4 extra Pawns in our game as well (in front of each Longbow™).We have also added another piece, Merlin™ , who sits off of the board until after you have lost one of your "BIG" pieces (Rook, Knight, Longbow, Bishop, or Queen)
These are pictures of our two new pieces
All of the other "Traditional chess pieces move, act, and look the same as they always have in "traditional Chess". We at Archers Chess© Limited decided to stay with the traditional "Staunton" style chess pieces, so we could keep our game as simple as possible, also the beauty, durability, and playability of these pieces are amazing. In any international chess tournament now, the "Staunton" style pieces are required. |