http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3699405"Deciding that chess wasn't dorky enough, new improved martian chess has been developed to fix the problem"
The linked article is actually a pretty good article about playing Martian Chess at Origins:
http://io9.com/5019913/wouldnt-you-prefer-a-nice-game-of-martian-chess