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Grasshopper Chess. Each player has eight additional grasshoppers.

Author: Antoine Fourrière. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.

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The board used for this game has 8 row(s), 8 column(s), 64 cells/squares.

Invented in the year 1950. [1949-1951]. [1945-1955].

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• Grasshopper Chess. Each player has eight additional grasshoppers. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
• Grasshopper Chess. Row of grasshoppers behind the pawns. Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Joseph Boyer.
• Andernach-Grasshopper. Leaps on Queen-lines to move or capture, and any piece leapt over changes color. By Ben Good.
• Circe-Grasshopper. Leaps on Queen-lines to move or capture, and any piece leapt over returns to its starting square. By Ben Good.
• Contragrasshopper. Moves as queen but must always jump first. Author: Ben Good.
• Einstein-Grasshopper. Leaps on Queen-lines to move or capture, and any piece leapt over changes type. By Ben Good.
• Grasshopper. Moves along queenlines to first square after jumped over piece. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: T. R. Dawson.

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