External Link: Capablanca Shatranj
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'Capablanca Shatranj' plays just like 'Capablanca Chess' except the 'Chancellor' and 'Archbishop' are replaced by the 'Minister' and 'HighPriestess', and pawns can only promote to these pieces. * Minister: dabbaba-wazir-knight * HighPriestess: alfil-fers-knight Everything else is normal chess, pawns have their 2 step first move and castling is allowed. All variants in the Capablanca family of games are featured. At first the new pieces i was going to use were the Knight-Dabbaba and Knight-Alfil compound pieces but their pawn protection on opening set-up was not good enough. As it is now, the Minister and HighPriestess protect the same pawns on opening set-up as the Chancellor and Archbishop do. This idea is very simple. Awhile ago i could see that the Chancellor and Archbishop could be 'shatranj-ized' into the Knight-Dabbaba and Knight-Alfil compound pieces. I hope i have presented it here in an interesting way. ok, have fun!! :)
External Link: http://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/17640?do=show;id=1304
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By Christine Bagley-Jones.
Web page created: 2006-12-03. Web page last updated: 2006-12-03