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Clear of knights chess

No kings, and win is by eliminating all enemy knights. 8x8 board.

Setup

Starting position:
	N	N	R	R	B	B	<>
P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
$	$


						$	$
P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
<>	B	B	R	R	N	N

Pawns on ranks 2 and 7. Sergeants diametrically opposite each other on ranks 3 and 6.

Pieces

Chancellor ("<>") are rook + knight compounds.

Sergeants ("$") function as in Wolf Chess.

Rooks are rook + fers compounds.

Bishops are bishop + wazir compounds.

(Possibly the players could agree on whether the knights can capture by displacement, or whether they won't be able to capture enemy agents at all?)

Rules

Change of rules:



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By Patrik Hedman.

Last revised by H. G. Muller.


Web page created: 2014-03-16. Web page last updated: 2022-12-05