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Ecumenical Chess. Set of Variants incorporating Camels and Camel compound pieces. (8x10, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 05:24 PM UTC:
It is nonsense to count the square where the piece is standing, as a piece does not defend itself. The fact that a King could defend it is not relevant: to make a checkmate position in the corner the King is already spoken for to cover the squares on the second rank. So the other piece has to attack 2 adjacent first-rank squares. If it cannot do that, there are no checkmate positions.