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Rotorblades 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.

Rotorblades Chess is a cross between Circular Chess and Trigonal Chess. It is played on a circular tessellation of 150 triangular-shaped cells. The name of the game is inspired by BLADES, an earlier game by Graeme C. Neatham, and refers to both the round shape of the board and the blade-like shape of the cells.

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By David Cannon.
Web page created: 2010-09-01. Web page last updated: 2010-09-01