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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

satellite=eight ranks=8 files=8 maxPromote=1 promoZone=1 promoChoice=QNRB stalemate=win extinction=0 graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/small/ squareSize=29 symmetry=mirror firstRank=1 lightShade=#FFFFC0 darkShade=#FFCC00 rimColor=#FFFFFE coordColor=#000000 whitePrefix=W blackPrefix=B graphicsType=gif useMarkers=1 borders=0 Pawn::::a2-h2 Knight:N::: Bishop:::: Rook:::: Queen:::: King::K::a1-h1

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.