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Pompeii Chess

This page contains one or more presets for playing a game online with Game Courier, an online server for playing Chess variants by correspondence.

Captured pieces are dropped, though not in promotion area if pawns. Pawns move orthogonally, diagonally when capturing.

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Logs of Pompeii Chess

Image created using Game Courier, invented by Fergus Duniho.

Alfaerie Graphics by David Howe



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Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Dan Troyka.
Web page created: 2006-06-07. Web page last updated: 2006-06-07