What are MINISTERS official rules?
. Apart from a few exceptions, stemming from the newly introduced symmetry and the larger size of the board, MINISTERS official rules are the same as those of conventional chess. They were created with the utmost respect for the teachings, tradition and history of chess. This is the essence of MINISTERS Chess. It is the perfection of symmetry while deviating the least from traditional conventional Western chess. MINISTERS is precisely defined as a game with a 9×9 = 81-squares board and 36 chess pieces, namely the conventional chess pieces plus a MINISTERS (queen) and a pawn per player. MINISTERS rules are guidelines for playing the game. However, there is no reason why a player cannot experiment with different rules. Evidently, experimenting with deviations from the MINISTERS regular rules is similar to the diversions that exist in conventional chess. They remain deviations and diversions from the true rules of the game.
