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Iron Guard Chess. Instead of a queen, white has an Iron Guard who can move only to adjacent diagonal squares and cannot be captured.

Author: Douglas Silfen.

Notes

Object: Checkmate the opponent's King by attacking it so it cannot escape. Instead of a queen, White has a guard who can move only to adjacent diagonal squares, but cannot be captured. Both sides have Iron Guards and no Queens in the 'Double Iron Guard' variant. To see a description of how a piece moves right-click on it to bring up its properties dialog.

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The board used for this game has 8 row(s), 8 column(s), 64 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.

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• Iron Guard. Non-capturable guard replaces White queen. Author: Ed Friedlander.

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