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Antimage Chess

Setup

White:

-Dragon Horse (a1, h1)

-Knight (b1, g1)

-Tiger (c1, f1)

-Queen (d1)

-King (e1)

-Salamander (a2-h2)

-Antimage (d6)

Black:

-Dragon Horse (a8, h8)

-Knight (b8, g8)

-Tiger (c8, f8)

-Queen (d8)

-King (e8)

-Salamander (a7-h7)

-Antimage (d3)

Pieces

Dragon Horse

Moveset: It has range 7 move or attack in all diagonal directions, 1 orthogonal range move or attack.

Tiger

Moveset: 2 diagonal range move or attack.

Ability: When capturing an opponent's piece, it remains in it's original position instead of taking the position of the captured piece.

From: Sirlin's Chess

Salamander

Moveset: 1 forward diagonal range move, 1 forward orthogonal attack only.

Ability: When capturing an opponent's piece, it remains in it's original position instead of taking the position of the captured piece.

From: Chess Evolved Online.

Antimage

Moveset: 2 orthogonal range move or attack, 1 diagonal range move only, 3 orthogonal range move only.

Ability: Immune to ranged attack (Salamander & Tiger can't capture Antimage).

From: Older version of Chess Evolved Online.

Other pieces are as in Chess.

Rules

Salamander promotes to Knight or Tiger on the non-corner last rank, promotes to Knight, Tiger, Antimage, Dragon Horse, or Queen on the corner last rank.

Notes

Play with the ChessCraft app:

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Web page created: 2023-10-30. Web page last updated: 2024-04-23