the original idea was to have a limited amount of chess pieces on the board at a time and to get them to the other side to cash the points and get another piece on the board in the starting row or take a piece from your opponent to cash the points with the opponent getting a new piece to place on the board. each new piece would be hidden from the opponent until you make the first move or something like that, but I've also had a few good suggestions from my friends and my boyfriend came up with an idea that was more on the theme but I broke the game trying to implement it.