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Paul Schooling's chess

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.

Normal Chess with the following exceptions: 1.Pawns capturing become knights. Knights capturing become bishops. Bishops capturing become rooks. Rooks capturing become queens. 2.Queens capturing leave behind a friendly Bishop in the last rank or a friendly pawn in the other ranks. 3.Kings capturing leave behind a friendly copy of the unit captured. 4.Pawns promote only to bishops. 5.No castling.

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By Yu Ren Dong.
Web page created: 2009-06-19. Web page last updated: 2009-06-19