Great Shatranj

This is a rules file for Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules to. With Zillions-of-Games installed, this rules file will let you play this game against your computer.

Great Shatranj

Game by Joe Joyce, 2006

zrf by Christine See here for full info on game

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/great-shatranj

Setup

Pieces

Rules

Normal rules in chess like games.  Win by checkmate or reduce enemy to lone King.

PLEASE NOTE This release of Great Shatranj has 2 zrf files, Great Shatranj and Great Shatranj-a.

'Great Shatranj' Variant 1 plays with pawn promotion to General.   

Variant 2 plays with pawn promotion to Jumping-General.

'Great Shatranj-a' Pawn promotion is to a captured piece only.

Notes

I did notice this here on the game page

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/great-shatranj

where Joe says  'Several people have suggested that the pawns get an initial double step.'

Joe and I realeased 'The Shortrange Project' which has games nearly exactly like this game with the pawn double step.

Difference is instead of the 'General', which one square all directions, we have a piece that slides 1-2 squares on the queen lines.

Please see here 

https://www.chessvariants.com/ideas/shortrange-project

Download Instructions

Instructions on downloading this Zillions file:

• Download the .zip file
• Extract the contents of the .zip file to your Zillions of Games folder
• Be sure you have the "Use folder names" checkbox checked when you extract the files.

Last revised by Christine Bagley-Jones.