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This page is written by the game's inventor, Sergey Sirotkin.

Eight Kings

Introduction

This game has analogy to a puzzle, in which it is necessary to place the king so that they attacked all free squares of a board, but here are added pawn.

Object

Checkmate or stalemate one of opponent's king.

Initial Array

Rules:

The game is conducted by rules of orthodox chess with the following changes:


Written by Sergey Sirotkin. Web page posted by David Howe.
WWW page created: 3 Oct 2000. Last modified on: 3 Oct 2000.