Camel Decimal Chess
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One more Chess Variant adding a pair of Camels to the standard chess set. This is a long tradition started with historical variants of shatranj (although in these early times, it moved like a Dabbaba), and followed in modern times by numerous proposals.
What's wrong with the Camels by the way? First, I wanted to have an arrangement where all Pawns are protected on the initial setup. Which is not the case for Devingt Chess (Léopold de Labrousse, 2005), Mexican Chess (Prince Joli Kansil, 1965), or Mephisto (Stanislaw Hofmokl-Ostrowski, 1955). That issue is solved by Modern Kamil (Nuno Cruz, 2002) but one problem remains: Camels are able to attack the opponent's Pawns on their second move, which is quite early.
Also, to be avoided is setup from which the Camels would fork the opponent's King or Queen very early.
It seems that a kind of Shako-setup would be interesting. This keeps the entire standard chess setup internally, allowing some transposition of openings.
Setup
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By Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Last revised by Jean-Louis Cazaux.
Web page created: 2023-11-13. Web page last updated: 2023-12-17