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White Elephant Chess. Four variants pitting the white Elephant army against black with the normal FIDE array. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Feb 25, 2005 06:10 PM UTC:
The Eccentric Elephants: a new army for Ralph Betza's 'Chess with Different Armies.' Replace the Bishops with Elephants, the Rooks with Great Elephants, and the Queen with a Mastodon, a piece combining the Rook with Ralph Betza's Bede (Bishop plus Dabbabah). Even though the Mastodon can jump like a Dabbabah in all four directions, I think it is worth no more than a Queen plus a Pawn. This should balance out the army nicely. There is no need for a special castling rule for this army, as the Great Elephants are not colorbound. Note that each Great Elephant has a single orthogonal jump in the initial position, just like each Bede in the Colorbound Clobberers.