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Chess on a Soccer Ball

This is a rules file for Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules to. With Zillions-of-Games installed, this rules file will let you play this game against your computer.

Chess on a Soccer Ball is played on the 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons of a soccer ball. For a description of the rules, and some graphics and diagrams, view the accompanying article.

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By David Cannon.
Web page created: 2016-02-03. Web page last updated: 2016-02-03