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The birth of two variants: Apothecary chess 1 & Apothecary chess 2[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Aurelian Florea wrote on Sat, Mar 4, 2017 04:15 PM UTC:

Let us reiterate the Apothecary2 pieces. There are five categories of strength:

Major Pieces:

Queen:Classic chess queen

Archbishop:bishop+knight

Chancellor:rook+knight

Rook piece:

Rook: Classic Chess Rook

Fool Piece:

Fool: Imitates the last move of the opponent

Minor Pieces:

Knight:classic chess knigth that moves but not captures with a (3,3) leap

Bishop:classic chess bishop

Elephant:moves and captures one or two steps diagonally or leaps just to move (3,0)

Zebra:Makes a moving or capturing (3,2) leap or step just to move 1 step diagonally

Camel:Makes a moving or capturing (3,1) leap or step just to move 1 step orthogonally

Pawn piece:

Pawn: classic chess pawn move and capture but promotes and rank 8 to any minor at rank 9 to a minor or rook and rank 10 to any piece.