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and nine men with initial setup as shown, including three men initially not yet in play at the side of the board. To win, a player must
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a non-existent square. For a turn, a player may move a man on the board, or alternatively, they may put one of their
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A man may not move to, nor through, a non-existent (blackened-out) square; except that a man moving as a knight may
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A man with more than one position relationship has the ability to move in more than one way. Likewise, if a man has
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position relationship defined above, that man cannot move. The king has no bearing on how the other men may move.
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215:The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
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128:Checks, checkmate, and captures are as in
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144:– another chess variant by Jim Winslow
23:Chessence gameboard and starting setup
34:invented by Jim Winslow in 1989. The
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722:5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel
195:. Games & Puzzles Publications.
16:Chess variant by Jim Winslow in 1989
252:a simple program by Ed Friedlander
193:The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
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1341:Board games introduced in 1989
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213:(2007). Beasley, John (ed.).
890:Chess on a really big board
771:Chess with different armies
313:Different starting position
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1228:Game of the Seven Kingdoms
1218:Game of the Three Kingdoms
339:Different number of pieces
1223:Game of the Three Friends
920:Dekle's triangular chess
852:Maharajah and the Sepoys
1309:The Chess Variant Pages
827:Capablanca random chess
436:Three-dimensional chess
244:The Chess Variant Pages
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796:Pocket mutation chess
711:Parallel worlds chess
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1286:Correspondence chess
330:Transcendental chess
320:Fischer random chess
781:Falcon–hunter chess
664:an unorthodox board
662:Unorthodox rules on
551:Monochromatic chess
411:Millennium 3D chess
1302:Fairy Chess Review
1027:Three-player chess
867:Tutti-frutti chess
749:Standard 8Ă—8 board
626:Elements of chance
590:Multimove variants
531:Knight relay chess
325:Displacement chess
241:by Peter Aronson,
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1296:Fairy chess piece
1270:Zillions of Games
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1002:Four-player chess
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878:boards and pieces
786:Grasshopper chess
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617:Progressive chess
607:Marseillais chess
581:Way of the Knight
576:Three-check chess
571:Progressive chess
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224:978-0-9555168-0-1
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930:Wildebeest chess
832:Chancellor chess
822:Capablanca chess
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643:Knightmare Chess
521:Extinction chess
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441:Triangular chess
420:Los Alamos chess
360:Unorthodox board
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217:. John Beasley.
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173:Pritchard (2007)
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1213:Manchu chess
1123:Short assize
857:Modern chess
817:Almost chess
720:
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566:Portal chess
561:PlunderChess
556:Patrol chess
541:Losing chess
516:Dynamo chess
486:Beirut chess
481:Atomic chess
382:Double chess
367:Balbo's game
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182:Bibliography
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163:, p. 54
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142:Beirut Chess
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83:If a man is
73:orthogonally
70:If a man is
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1291:Fairy chess
1093:Chadarangam
1063:Navia Dratp
1017:Quatrochess
997:Four Fronts
949:Multiplayer
910:Omega Chess
900:Dragonchess
885:Chesquerque
847:Janus Chess
842:Grand Chess
738:rules using
671:Alice chess
536:Legan chess
511:Cubic chess
501:Circe chess
458:traditional
396:Cross chess
1325:Categories
1103:Chaturanga
1086:Historical
935:Wolf chess
876:Unorthodox
736:Unorthodox
716:Rollerball
676:Apocalypse
648:Kriegspiel
638:Dice chess
633:Dark chess
506:Crazyhouse
456:rules with
454:Unorthodox
387:Grid chess
149:References
86:diagonally
54:Game rules
1260:Fairy-Max
1181:Dai shogi
1176:Chu shogi
1098:Chaturaji
1032:Tri-chess
925:2000 A.D.
915:Stratomic
706:Jeson Mor
701:Dragonfly
686:Chessence
653:Penultima
496:Chessplus
469:8Ă—8 board
416:Minichess
250:Chessence
239:Chessence
119:jump over
80:in chess.
48:stalemate
44:checkmate
28:Chessence
1248:Software
1193:Sittuyin
1161:Senterej
1149:variants
1137:Regional
1118:Shatranj
1068:The Duke
987:Forchess
957:Bosworth
801:Cheskers
761:Berolina
467:Standard
351:Handicap
191:(1994).
136:See also
1279:Related
1198:Xiangqi
977:Duchess
756:Baroque
123:reserve
1265:XBoard
1255:ChessV
1203:Jungle
1166:Shatar
1156:Makruk
1144:Janggi
1048:Arimaa
972:Djambi
766:Chakra
742:pieces
460:pieces
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199:
104:knight
91:bishop
1208:Banqi
1171:Shogi
1079:games
1053:Jetan
776:Duell
691:Congo
62:.) A
60:check
36:board
30:is a
1007:Gala
905:Gess
681:Chad
298:list
256:Java
219:ISBN
197:ISBN
78:rook
40:king
64:man
46:or
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