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Oblong Chess 44

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.

This is the Zillions file for Oblong Chess 44, a variant on the historical "Oblong Chess" (A Shataranj variant) created for the CVP 44 squares contest in 2004. The Zillions file includes an option to play Oblong Chess 44 with Rooks.

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By Erez Schatz.
Web page created: 2005-05-21. Web page last updated: 2005-05-21