'Piece Promotion Games 2' is played on a 10x10 board, with pieces promoting
in the final 3 ranks. There are 4 armies, with 10 variants. There are 6
leaper variants, 2 chaturanga variants, 1 shogi variants and 1 shatranj
elephants variant. Descriptions below.
- Chaturanga: Dabbaba promotes to Wazaba (dabbaba/wazir), Elephant promotes
to Ferfil (alfil/fers). Knights do not promote.
Pawns promote down a promotional line, pawn-> fers-> wazir-> dabbaba->
wazaba. There is also a variant that plays with the Zurafa, which is the Giraffe
from 'Tamerlane Chess' (Timur's Chess).
- Leapers: Plays with pieces like the Squirrel, Gnu, Gazelle, Bison and
Buffalo (not all together). Pawns promote down a promotional line i.e.
pawn-> fers-> wazir-> dabbaba-> wazaba.
Zebra, Giraffe and Camel promote to Knight. Strong pieces like Squirrel and
Gazelle etc do not promote.
- Shogi: Lots of fun, pieces promote similiar to the way they do in shogi.
Plays with western pawns.
- ShatranjElephants: RollingElephant, DrunkElephant and ButterflyElephant
promote to a General (moves like King). Pawns promote down promotional line
same as Chaturanga/Leaper variants.
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