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Chess vs Strong Makruk

Makruk is played on an 8x8 board like Chess.

One can easily place both Chess and Makruk on the same board and pit them against each other. However, the Chess army may be too strong with the long-range Queen and Bishop, compared to the much weaker Seed/Met and Nobleman/Khon in Makruk.

Strong Makruk is an enhanced Makruk variant created to face the Chess army in a more balanced matchup. The moveset for the enhanced pieces in Strong Makruk are described below.

Setup

Pieces

Seed-Boat: moves as a Boat/Rua or Seed/Met

 

Seed-Horse: moves as a Horse/Ma or Seed/Met

 

Nobleman: moves as a regular Nobleman/Khon in Makruk (unchanged)

 

Noble-Seed: moves as an extended Nobleman/Khon - any number of squares diagonally and orthogonally forward

 

Khun: moves as a regular Khun/King in Makruk (unchanged)

 

Bia: moves as a regular Bia/Pawn in Makruk, with the exception of the promotion rule described below.

Rules

The Bia/Pawn in Strong Makruk also promotes on the 6th rank, but to a Nobleman/Khun instead of a Seed/Met.

Notes

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Chess vs Strong Makruk (The reverse matchup and a Strong Makruk game with the same armies are also included)



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By Albert Lee.

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Web page created: 2021-07-26. Web page last updated: 2021-08-27

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