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Jetan. Martian Chess, coming from the book The Chessmen of Mars. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]<P>Jean-Louis Cazaux says on this page:</P>
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According to Burroughs, the older version of Jetan had Odwars instead of Fliers that could not jump over intervening pieces.
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<P>This is incorrect. Not only does Burroughs not say this, but in the pivotal game of Jetan played to win Princess Tara of Helium, which is played in a city that uses the name of Odwar for the piece, the very first move of the game is an Odwar move. This would be impossible if the Odwar could not leap. Burroughs writes:</P>
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<P>... and then the game was on.</P>
<P>U-Dor moved his Princess' Odwar three squares diagonally to the right, which placed the piece upon the Black Chief's Odwar's seventh.</P>
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