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Mad Elephant Chess. Pawns can be turned into Elephants; Elephants can promote to Mad Elephants, and Mad Elephants can trample lines of pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Gary Gifford wrote on Fri, Jun 2, 2006 11:02 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

This game reminds me of Shatranj with elephants raised on a diet of TNT and
nitroglycerin.  I have no doubt that it would make for a very fun 10 or 15
minute game using a chess-clock.  Longer e-mail type games could require
lots of deep thought and could result in some hair-pulling.

I did notice a slight error in the rules.  There is this statement,
'Elephants move like Alfils, a jump of two squares in any direction,
leaping over any pieces that may occupy the first square.'  It should
state 'any diagonal direction' instead of 'any direction.'

A clever idea.... perhaps there should be a pre-set so players could start
getting rated at this wild game?

Walker wrote on Fri, Jan 15, 2021 05:56 PM UTC in reply to Gary Gifford from Fri Jun 2 2006 11:02 PM:

Saying this is like "Shatranj with elephants raised on a diet of TNT and nitroglycerin" might be understating it. Anyway, if the Mad Elephant is slightly stronger than a Queen, then I might make an appropriate sub-subvariant: Like the subvariant "No Starting Elephants," but the Queen is replaced by a Mad Elephant, so the setup is approximately the same, but Elephants can still come into the game easily and the Queen is slightly stronger. To balance out the stronger Queen, I might use R7 or R6 for the Rook, and if this were added to Chess With Different Armies, I'd call it the Elephant Army.

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