The board for this game is really two boards. One is a standard 8x8 chess board and starts with a standard chess setup. The second board right next to the chess board is the shifter board. On the shifter board are two "shifters", one for white, and one for black.
 
On a player's turn he can either move a chess piece or move his shifter. If he moves the shifter to any but the none position, then one type of piece on the chess board gains extra movement ability. The extra movement ability remains till the shifter is moved again.
 
The first variant (the variant the game starts on) is mainly meant for one player vs the computer. You can use it to play two players but if the black player flips the board the shifter board looks funny. The second variant plays just like the first variant but the board uses a different design so that the shifter board look right if the board is flipped. If you use this variant while playing against the computer, the computer believes it is doing worst then it really is, causing it to play overly defensively.
 
The next two variants are linked games so if a player moves his shifter he also moves his oppenent's shifter to the same posistion.
 
The last variant is a random game where the players don't get to move the shifters but they move on their own. Since the randomness of the game messes up the computer's moves some what, I didn't include a version that helps the computer out.
 
 
This is my first game written for Zillions. If you wish to send me any comments you can e-mail me at toddmakin@prodigy.net