Mad King Chess

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.

This Zillions implementation contains two variants:

Emperor-style Mad King. Movement similar to the Emperor in several Shogi variants. Presented by R. Wayne Schmittberger as "Emperor King Chess".

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Amazon-style Mad King. This King is permitted to take an undefended opposing King as an Amazon. Similar to the exposure rule of Generals in XiangQi.

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.

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By Larry L. Smith.
Web page created: 2008-10-23. Web page last updated: 2008-10-23