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Sultan's Elephant Chess. Pieces can group together in fours to form giant pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
J Andrew Lipscomb wrote on Thu, May 18, 2006 02:55 PM UTC:
The Waffle is for some strange reason linked to the Gold General. It actually appears in Chu Shogi under the name Phoenix.

Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, May 18, 2006 03:27 PM UTC:
Cut-and- paste error, now fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.

Andy Maxson wrote on Sat, Feb 10, 2007 06:25 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
this game must be fun, once you memorized all the moves!

Andy Maxson wrote on Sat, Feb 10, 2007 06:32 PM UTC:
you have made a mistake! Charles, you said the sultans elepnant move on a 16 by 16 board corresponds to a wazir on an 8 by 8 board it should correspond to a ferz on a 16 by 16 board

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Feb 11, 2007 07:35 AM UTC:
Another cut-and-paste error, and also now fixed.

Abdul-Rahman Sibahi wrote on Thu, Apr 26, 2007 07:14 AM UTC:
my understanding is that the Alibabante is different from the Alibaba rider in that it is NOT a rider. It may leap 2, 4, 6, or 8 squares in any orthogonal or diagonal direction regardless whether the intermediate squares were occupied or not. Your description implies it is an Alibaba rider.

M Winther wrote on Thu, Apr 26, 2007 03:32 PM UTC:
I have never seen such a floundering piece as the Nightflyer, as a 'compound Crooked Nightrider'. It is virtually impossible to foresee the moves of this piece. I suppose it's a way of introducing randomness, because nobody could master this piece. /Mats

M Winther wrote on Fri, Apr 27, 2007 05:22 AM UTC:
This variant is a parody. The author has created a hopeless variant lacking in all chesslike values in order to make a statement about inferior chess variants. /Mats

Tom R. Becker wrote on Sat, Mar 24, 2012 11:08 PM UTC:
I've looked into your reply and I was thinking maybe you just change the name of the game and that of the big pieces. If you think that won't work it's ok.

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