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Roman Chess. Commercial chess variant on a 10x10 board with two non-royal kings added.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝Greg Strong wrote on Fri, Oct 13, 2017 12:06 PM UTC:

I will update this page this weekend.  I'll get rid of the external link, now dead, and replace with a description of the rules.

What an uninspired game this was... slow and boring, I'd imagine.  The pawns were not given a 3-step move and the new pieces moved only one space at a time, so it would have taken a game quite a while to get going.  The sets themselves were pretty expensive ($80) and the company web site was quite bad.  (You can still see it at archive.org.)  I could find no indication of how far the king moves when castling.

EDIT: I now notice that old ChessV plays this game. I just tested it and the king moves three squares when castling. Presumably that was the rule which I found somewhere or asked the author. It's unlikely that I just made it up.