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Dürer's 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.

Dürer's Chess is played on a 151-cell tessellation of pentagons and diamonds, first described by the German mathematician Albrecht Dürer in 1525.

There are many new pieces, and several ways to capture.

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By David Cannon.
Web page created: 2010-02-17. Web page last updated: 2011-04-29