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       KhanChess®
       By: Asher Hurowitz Date: April 3, 2018, 5:49 pm
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       What do you think? It looks like a nice modern variant which has
       an all-too-striking resemblance to Hia Shatar.
       HOWEVER: it has drops and a new flavorful rule called "Yasak,"
       the kind of Bushido-esque honor system of Mongolia, which has
       pieces freeze, a bit like the mechanic "summoning sickness" in
       the TCG Magic The Gathering. It's an interesting mechanic that
       should be used in more variants.
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       Re: KhanChess®
       By: HGMuller Date: April 4, 2018, 1:51 am
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       There are several variants of Kahn Chess (which have all in
       common that reaching last rank with a legal King move is a win).
       I once had to play a game on an 8x8 board for a general
       2-player-board-game tournament. (Also met the inventor there.)
       It can give a very fierce fight when one of the players drops
       his King in an advanced location. We did not play with the
       "Yasak" (freeze) rule then, so I decided to keep my own King in
       reserve, for advanced dropping during the end-game, without any
       possibility to be checkmated before that.
       IIRC, there is a commercial variant called 'Raindrop Chess',
       which also has a (partical) freezing rule: there you are not
       allowed to capture if your own King is not yet on the board.
       That leads to a very interesting dilemma of when to introduce
       the King. When you do it too early, the opponent will acquire a
       huge lead in development by dropping his pieces with check, when
       you do it too late you cannot recapture any pieces he attacks,
       which is a big problem when he forks multiple pieces.
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