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Ecumenical Chess. Set of Variants incorporating Camels and Camel compound pieces. (8x10, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Joe Joyce wrote on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 03:12 AM UTC:
So this effectively means that a piece must be rooklike for at least 3 contiguous squares to force mate with only itself and the 2 kings on the board, if I understand correctly, ruling out even pieces like the archbishop [BN] and the high priestess, [FAN].