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Forum Announcement and Contest
By: Asher Hurowitz Date: June 7, 2018, 7:52 pm
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Hello!
You may have noticed that the forum is experiencing somewhat of
a mid year lull, which is to be expected. Nevertheless I have
been busy at work improving it! Besides various bug fixes and
page loading problems now mended you all now have access to all
of the emoticons that would be seen on an Apple mobile product
messaging application, I hope you enjoy! I'm just happy I can
now use the flag of Uzbekistan on my website.
Anyway as my judges from around the world are getting back to me
with the long overdue results for the 10x10 contest slowly and
surely (I totally am never relying of twenty super busy people
scattered around the world as a viable judging method ever
again) I have decided for the summer to make a short and sweet
contest that is easy to judge and I can actually do by myself.
Since I will be extremely busy almost all summer I'll give you
all until August 15th revise and edit your games for submission!
You must design a playable and enjoyable variant on a board of
six by five squares. The rest is up to you!
Thanks,
Asher
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Re: Forum Announcement and Contest
By: joejoyce Date: June 8, 2018, 4:42 pm
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FLUID MINI-SHATRANJ
Pieces:
King: K - standard chess/shatranj king, moving 1 square in
any available direction.
Knight: N - standard chess/shatranj knight, leaping 1 square
orthogonally and then one more square diagonally outward.
Modern Elephant: E - Alfil + Ferz; steps 1 square diagonally
or leaps 2 squares diagonally.
Modern Warmachine: W - Dabbaba + Wazir; steps 1 square
orthogonally or leaps 2 squares orthogonally.
Shatranj Pawn: P - standard chess pawn except with no initial
double-step. Promotes to Knight, Modern Elephant or Modern
Warmachine.
Game is played on a 5 x 6 square board. At start, each player
has 5 pawns, placed on the 2nd and 5th ranks, and 7 pieces,
placed along the 1st and 6th ranks.
Piece placement: w+n; e; k; e+n; w / ppppp / 5 / 5 / PPPPP /
W+N; E; K; E+N; W
Ralph Betza's Rule Zero applies: All standard chess rules apply
except as otherwise noted.
Any 2 friendly pieces may occupy the same square. This does not
apply to pawns (unless both players agree to try this
experimental version.)
This pair of pieces may act as 1 piece, moving, capturing and
being captured together, as either of the pieces in the pair for
each move.
Or either piece may freely move as an individual, leaving the
other piece behind on the originating square.
A piece may start its move as 1/2 of one pair, and end that move
as 1/2 of another pair.
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