| Game: Sino-European Chess |
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Created by Andy Thomas, 2006-05-27
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requires ZoG 2.0
Checkmate
2-player
download 78 K
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Updated 2006-07-15
Fixed bug in one of the king's moves. |
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| Sino-European chess is yet another variant which attempts to combine Chinese Chess - xiang qi - with European or FIDE chess. The board is 9x9, and there is no queen - at least at the opening - as in FIDE. Instead, there are two cannons as in xiang qi. There are bishops as in FIDE, but they cannot move past the Great Wall which runs down the center file. There is a lieutenant piece which is like a FIDE king but not royal. The king is as in FIDE, but it cannot leave the castle area, which is 5 files by 3 ranks at the back of each side. The knights move as knights in FIDE, which is to say they are never blocked as can happen with horses in xiang qi. The rooks/chariots are identical to their FIDE/xiangqi counterparts. The pawns move and capture forward, and diagonally (forward). They never move sideways. They do promote to FIDE queens if they reach the opponent's back line.
Object: Checkmate your opponent's king. |
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