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Zillions of Games file for Bank Chess

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Object: Checkmate the opponent's King.
 
Put your assets on the bank for later use!
Any piece apart from the king may be stored outside the board and re-inserted at any later time.
To reinstate a piece, just click on an off-board piece.
 
The re-insertion of pieces adds a lot of excitement and drama.
 
Variant 4: Swap variant. You can only place one piece outside the board at any time.
Variants 2, 3, 5, 6 : Every second move must be a standard chess move.
Four Half-Standard Variants invented by Denis Van Straten.

This game first posted at Zillions of Games, http://www.zillionsofgames.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/93098?do=show;id=84

 

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The ZRF file and its accompanying graphics are bundled together in a .zip file. These will work with Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules and graphics for.

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Bank Chess is a Zillions-of-Games file. It is categorized as: Two dimensional.

Author: Karl Scherer. Inventor: Karl Scherer and Denis van Straten.