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Raumschach (rules enforcing). Play Raumschach on Game Courier, with rules enforced.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Ben Reiniger wrote on 2017-01-05 UTC

I hadn't noticed that the rules page gives the promotion zones as on two levels.  (Or more probably, I had forgotten.  In the comment thread on the rules page this is brought up twice.)  I actually cannot find anything to back up that version; the following all support what I assumed in writing the rules for this preset:

  • http://www.chessvariants.com/3d.dir/555.html
  • http://www.chessvariants.com/old.dir/3d5.html
  • https://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc/225235.pdf
  • Dickins's "A Guide to Fairy Chess"

Unless someone knows why two levels were allowed in the rules page, perhaps it should be changed.

 

(On the other hand, the "forward/up" pawn capture seems to have been intended by Maack; I just didn't allow it in this preset because of personal preference.)