| Normal chess rules apply except for the following. Any piece (not pawn) adjacent to the friendly King acquires additional capture powers. Positioned next to the majesty it can capture an enemy ahead of it on the same file, but only if there is another friendly piece in between, and any interim squares are empty. Only capture moves are allowed (no cannon movement without capture). So now any piece can go to the kingly battery, load a cannon, and turn itself into a ballistic missile.
There is also a variant where Scorpions take the place of the pawns. The Scorpion has the additional moves of a Knight, but only in two forward directions: east-north-east, and west-north-west. There are no additional capture moves. |
