Imagine a chessboard on which up to four people could play. After 25 years of working on it, a chess fan managed to create THE game he had in mind since his teenage years: Evolutio 1999.
What does it look like ?
This is a tray in the shape of a Celtic cross features three moving wheels allowing players to move faster. Originally from Maine-et-Loire, Lionel Blégean introduces us: “There is a central part with four districts, north, south, east and west. You can play with two, three or four, depending on your desires. And the rules are the same, you have to checkmate your opponents. When this is the case, we recover our color and we continue to play with the others, so we multiply the number of pieces. »
However, even if the basic rules turn out to be the same, the fact that we can move the board obviously changes the appearance of the game: “the movements remain the same, except the pawns, which can move back and eat diagonally one square. As all the squares move, an opponent on the left can suddenly find themselves on the right, and it can completely change your strategy. It’s more fun, dynamic, family-friendly. »
Alliance system
Unlike a so-called “classic” chess game, “what’s interesting here”underlines Lionel Blégean: “is that we can make alliances between players at the beginning or in the middle of the game, but not at the end” since there only needs to be one left.
Proof that his game is successful: the support of the French Chess FederationAnd a gold medal recently won at the Lépine invention competition in Paris. An outcome, for Lionel Blégean: “It allowed me to meet a lot of people, especially investors who want to follow me now. »
The creator of Evolutio 1999 assures that his concept is not complicated to understand: “From the moment you are old enough to move pieces, it becomes very fun. » The challenge for him today is to make him discover to the youngest, but also to people who are unfamiliar with chess. Lionel Blégean finally ensures that several schools are also very interested in his project.
