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Zabel-Schach.

A modest chess variant with an alternative pawn, the Zabel pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64)

🔔Notification on Mon, Mar 24 04:23 AM EDT:

The editor H. G. Muller has revised this page.

HaruN Y wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2023 12:11 AM EDT:

Interactive diagram: pieces movable, right-click resets!


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	mc	Move or capture
	mc	Move or capture (unblockable jump)
	m	Move only
	im	Move only (unmoved piece only)
	c	Capture only
	O	Castling destination of King
	m,c	Forbidden move, but delivers check
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(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Sun, Jan 16, 2011 02:18 AM EST:

There is a separate 'Author' and 'Inventor' field for that purpose, although it is the administration's job to modify the 'Inventor' field in case someone else has invented it.

💡📝Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, Mar 2, 2010 07:21 AM EST:

Although I cannot claim inventorship, it is me who has written down the game here. Unfortunately, for user submitted games there is no differentiation between who has authored the text and who has invented the game, so this entry became anonymised. This has the consequence that I cannot edit it anymore and I don't receive comment notifications for this item.

George Duke wrote on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 12:27 PM EST:

With unique stamp of creativity in Zabel Pawn, still this is similar to Mecklenburg Chess of year 1973:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=7437.
Basically with its difference Zabel-Schach facilitates promotion. Underpromotion earlier figures in Buczo's above and below, http://chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=25067. Monkeying with promotion, Grand Chess allows optional promotion earlier, http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/freeling.html, as do many copycats of that Grand Chess methodology. Another one, Falcon Chess 100 uses two promotion zones having different promotees, http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/falcon100.html. Putting more promotion ideas here are Knight Mare,
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/knightmare.html, and Gilman's gone overboard Weltschach, where the longer trek means the more ranking promotee accessible,
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSweltschach.
And Lavieri's Promoter you own, the opponent is unlikely ever to exercise his prerogative to capture: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSchesswithpromo.

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ID	nr	nr	name	move
Click on piece name to see its move diagram. (print version)
P	-	-	zabel pawn	fm(afafoab)KfcF
N	-	-	knight	N
B	-	-	bishop	B
R	-	-	rook	R
Q	-	-	queen	Q
K	-	-	king	KisO2