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The ShortRange Project

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.

The ShortRange Project is a joint effort from Christine Bagley-Jones and Joe Joyce. There are five zrf's contained within, as follows.

1. HyperModern Shatranj (2 variants)

2. HyperModern Great Shatranj (4 variants)

3. LongRange ShortRange piece Mix (4 variants)

4. Shatranj 10x8 (2 variants)

5. Alice Shatranj (20 variants)

You can download this game on the Zillions of Games website with this link.

https://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi?do=show;id=1348


Download Instructions

Instructions on downloading this Zillions file:


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By Christine Bagley-Jones and Joe Joyce.

Last revised by Christine Bagley-Jones.


Web page created: 2007-01-05. Web page last updated: 2007-01-05