Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.

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Paul Schooling's Chess

If you had a Java-capable browser, you could play Paul Schooling's Chess here.
Keys "s"=save "l"=load "b"=back once

1960's. Pawns capturing become knights. Knights capturing become bishops. Bishops capturing become rooks. Rooks capturing become queens. Queens capturing leave behind a friendly pawn. Kings capturing leave behind a friendly copy of the unit captured. Pawns promote only to bishops.

Chess Variants

These are simple illustrations rather than strong opponents.

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Written by Ed Friedlander

WWW Page Added: Sunday, December 30, 2001