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Arabian Chess. Large modern variant of historic Shatranj, with more pieces and flying carpets. (11x9, Cells: 84) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Paul E. Newton wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 05:33 PM UTC:

I considered allowing 'sequential promotion' but thought that with the Magic Flying Carpet feature of the game it could lead to too many Grand Viziers, and I do not generally like variants that become too dependent on one type of piece... In our home version the problem of the non-promoting General is easy because we have the General (G) that is on the 'flip-side' of the Pawn piece circled and the normal General is not in a circle. I am not a Zillions programmer, so I do not know how you would show this with a graphic, maybe turn the General on his head to show it is a promoted Pawn?