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Lemurian Shatranj

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.

Lemurian-Shatranj

Game by Joe Joyce, 2006

zrf by Christine.  See here for full info on game.

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/lemurian-shatranj

Setup

Set up is shown in above screenshot.

Pieces

Pieces Shatranj style.

Some different pieces are ...

Sliding General - This piece is a combination of 2 guards. It slides 1 or 2 squares. It may not jump. It may change direction during its move.

It may not make a null move [move off and then back onto its starting square].  It captures by landing directly on an opposing piece and ending its turn.

War Elephant - This is a combination of ferz, alfil, and dabbabah. It may move 1 square diagonally; or jump 2 squares either orthogonally or diagonally.

It captures by landing directly on an opposing piece and ending its turn. This is a colorbound piece.

 

Rules

Usual rules, checkmate and reduce enemy to lone King win game. PLEASE NOTE -this zrf plays with pieces promoting to any lost piece only.

Download Instructions

Instructions on downloading this Zillions file:


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By Christine Bagley-Jones.

Last revised by Christine Bagley-Jones.


Web page created: 2021-04-03. Web page last updated: 2021-04-08