It is also capable of (though not required to) making multiple consecutive capturesĪdditionally, for ease of developing what would otherwise be a nearly useless piece, it may make a noncapturing dabbabah or knight leap provided it has not yet been moved The draught moves one step in any diagonal direction without capturing to capture, it jumps over a diagonally adjacent piece, which is captured. It is written as fKmsbWcbF (I think) in funny notation and is referred to as a goldsteward by Charles Gilman's 'Man and Beast' classification The Draught It may also move one step in any orthogonal direction without capturing or one step in any diagonal direction to capture The promoted pawn moves one step straight or diagonally forward whether or not it is capturing It is written as mfWcfF in Betza's funny notation It does not have an initial two step capability, and thus there is no en-passant capture
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one step straight forward without capturing, or one step diagonally forward to capture. The pawn moves as an orthodox chess pawn, i.e. This shape of board was selected because it can be emulated by simply ignoring one quarter of a 10x10 board and warping the rest accordingly, as in the ASCII diagram Pieces The Pawn A diagonal move cannot cross the centre, as all 3 cells surrounding it are orthogonally adjacent 'forward' for a given player is towards the edge opposite the player's camp on a player's central diagonal, either possible direction may be regarded as forward Pieces are represented by their initials as given below each player has a camp of 15 pieces in a corner Where spaces connected by slashes are considered adjacent The board is (supposed to be) an equilateral triangle, with 'square' spaces there are 10 spaces along each edge.Īn (admittedly rather awkward) ASCII representation would be:
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I hope this variant will be enjoyable please leave any feedback/suggestions in the comments below. hexagonal) and the flexible turn order (see below). I have taken some ideas from existing variants, but have included a couple of my own, most prominently the shape of the board (which was born from lack of other 3-player-friendly boards, e.g.
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I have been interested in creating a 3-player variant for quite a time, and this is the result. This game is my first attempt at a thought-out chess variant. This page is written by the game's inventor, Bn Em.