Ascension Chess is a Chess variant where each turn consists of the following pair of actions in sequence:

1 - Move a piece.
2 - Promote a piece.

Pieces are promoted as follows:

Pawn -> Knight -> Bishop -> Rook -> Queen

Each player begins with 15 pawns and one king.

The pieces move as in standard Chess, but with these simplified movement rules:

- Win simply by capturing your opponent's king (there is no notion of check or checkmate).
- No castling.
- Pawns can only move a single step.
- No en-passant capture.
- No eight-rank promotion.

Threefold repetition results in a draw.

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