Shakti

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Christiaan Freeling's game. All pieces move orthogonally or diagonally. Kings move to the nearest available square in that direction. They may capture only to an adjacent square, and escape check only to an adjacent square. Pawns may move to the nearest available square in a direction, or the second-nearest, destroying the square leaped in the process. They give check only to the nearest square. Pawns do not capture pawns. No landing on destroyed squares. Kings may not face one another across a line composed entirely of destroyed squares. As per user input, I have altered the program so that being unable to move simply loses the turn.

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Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: Christian Freeling.

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Date	Name	Rating	Comment	Edit
Shakti. (7x7, Cells: 49)
2007-01-16	Tony Quintanilla	Excellent	Ed, thanks for all your work over the years to create and maintain these applets. This 'Excellent' goes for all your many applets. I should note that your applets, in some cases, are the only entry that we have for certain games at CVP.	View [*]
2007-01-15	Ed Friedlander	None	Thank you for allowing me to correct my error.	View [*]
2004-06-16		None	It says on the Game Information Page for Shakti: 'A player who cannot move is either checkmate or stalemate. .... In the second case the other player moves again, i.e., unlike chess, when a player is stalemated, he just loses his turn.' Therefore, stalemate is not a draw.	View [*]
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