Ultra Grand Cavalier Chess with Zebra-Queen
The idea for this game started as an homage for Fergus Duniho's Grand Cavalier chess. The name of this game includes besides the part that evokes the original Grand Cavalier chess, the name of the most powerful piece in the game- the Zebra-Queen. A twin game with this one exists featuring a Camel-Queen. I have invested a little bit of though in the game and I'm afraid the game ended up being quite different from the original. I wanted to have an Grand Cavalier chess game expanded to (initially) 12x12 board. But as piece lines in the initial position are not ok when adjacent to each other I needed white's cavaliers (the pawns of this game) on rank 5. So the game ended up being designed for a 14x14 board.
One thing I have changed is the movement of the cavaliers (the pawns). Instead of the chinese horse the cavaliers now move only forward as the chinese horse. Then they are split in two types receiving either the sideways and back wazir moves, either the back half of the ferz. This was done because I don't like the idea of pawns protecting each other. The next thing I have changed are the moves of the paladin and Marshall. They now may move knightwiselly up to twice in the same direction. The Nightrider also receives a buff. But opposed to the queen it receives Camel buff.
Moreover I have added new pieces. As I like bend riders a lot I have added two of those, each of them having a leaping enhancement, as all the pieces I have mentioned so far: a wazir-then-bishop+camel and an B2-then-rook+knight.
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By Aurelian Florea.
Last revised by Aurelian Florea.
Web page created: 2024-05-23. Web page last updated: 2024-05-23