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Aieirping Chess

Setup

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Pieces

[A] Any distance straight forward or diagonally backwards.
[B] Bishop in chess.
[D] Move as bishop, and then mark all orthogonally adjacent squares as walls.
[E] Moves as knight, but can capture opponent's king by moving as a queen.
[F] Moves as a knight, or you can mark a vacant adjacent space as a wall.
[H] As knight on your side of the board, queen on opponent's side.
[I] Rook, but if capturing, put captured piece on a vacant square and convert to your own.
[J] Moves one space orthogonally or diagonally, but no adjacent opponent piece can move.
[K] As king in chess, but no check/mate. Capture opponent's king to win.
[L] Move as rook, and then mark a vacant horizontally adjacent space as a wall.
[M] Combination of knight and bishop.
[N] Knight in chess.
[O] Moves one space orthogonally.
[P] Pawn in chess, but no initial double move. Promotes to queen.
[Q] Queen in chess.
[R] Rook in chess.
[S] Move as queen or knight, but cannot capture opponent. You can capture your own pieces.
[T] Switches places with one of your own pieces in same row or column, except the king.
[U] As a rook when on your side of the board, bishop if on opponent's side.
[X] As queen, but does not move except to capture.
[Y] Move one space orghogonally backward or one space diagonaly forward.
[Z] Any distance straight forward. Promotes to rook.
[*] This is a wall, which cannot be moved into or through, cannot move, cannot be captured.

Rules

Rules:
 You lose if you cannot make a move, or if you lose your king, or if you lose all pawns and queens.


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By (zzo38) A. Black.
Web page created: 2006-12-03. Web page last updated: 2006-12-03