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Royal Guard 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.

Played like standard Chess, except: * The King moves orthogonally only. * Each side has two Royal Guards who move like a Ferz (one square diagonally) but cannot leave their home area. * Pieces (Knights, Bishops and Rooks) promote to Queens on the farthest rank. * A Pawn promotes to a Knight or Bishop (on the ninth rank). * There is no castling.

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By Adrian Alvarez de la Campa.
Web page created: 2006-01-29. Web page last updated: 2006-01-29