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Desert Dust

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Pieces

Melek: Melek is Arabic for "king," and the Melek moves exactly like the King.

Sultana: The Sultana combines the moves of the Queen and the Camel.

Emir: The Emir slides orthogonally like a Rook, moves to any adjacent space, or leaps like a Camel.

Caliph: The Caliph slides diagonally like a Bishop, or leaps like a Camel.

Canvasser: The Canvasser slides orthogonally like a Rook, or leaps like a Camel.

Sultan: The Sultan moves to any diagonal space, or leaps like a Knight or Camel.

Grand Vizier: The Grand Vizier can moves to any adjacent space, or leaps like a Camel or two spaces diagonally.

Snake: The Snake moves one space forward or backward, then may continue outward like a Bishop.

Astrologer: The Astrology leaps like a Camel, and then may continue outward like a Bishop.

Raven: 

Ostrich: 

Satrap: 

Qayin: 

Jackal: The Jackal leaps three spaces diagonally, or like a Zebra.

Shiek: The Sheik moves to any adjacent diagonal space, leaps like a Camel, or leaps to every other orthogonal space (like a Dabbabarider).

Sorcerer: The Sorcerer moves one space orthogonally, or leaps like a Zebra.

Wizard: The Wizard moves one space diagonally, or leaps like a Camel.

Arabian Spear: The Arabian Spear moves directly forward like a Rook, or diagonally forward like a Bishop. (It cannot move sideways or backward.)

Camel: The Camel leaps one space by three spaces.

Pawn:

Scorpion:

Rules

Other than the above, rules are as in standard Chess.



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By Bob Greenwade.

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Web page created: 2023-08-21. Web page last updated: 2023-10-22

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