fortress
Attention: this page was submitted by an unknown author. Fortress This is a chess variant I have been wanting to try. This has a few more pieces and a bigger board.
Setup
12x12 board RKBCAQKACBKR cwcwcwwcwcwc pppppppppppp ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ pppppppppppp cwcwcwwcwcwc RKBCAQKACBKR
Pieces
12 Pawns (p) 2 Rooks (R) 2 Knights (K) 2 Bishops (B) 2 Cardinal (C) 2 Assassins (A) 1 Queen (Q) 1 King (K) 6 Walls (w) 6 Catapults (c)
Rules
No enpassant No Castling Pawns as for standard chess except cannot take walls Rooks as per standard chess except cannot take walls Knights as per standard chess except cannot take walls Bishops as per standard chess except cannot take walls Queen as per standard chess but cannot take walls King as per standard chess but cannot take walls Cardinal as a knight moves 2>1 a cardinal moves 3>2 Assassin moves as a king except when next to a wall when it can jump over a wall and can capture what is on the other side. Can capture anything except for a wall. Catapult moves like a king. Is the only piece thet can take a wall. Wall moves like a king, cannot be taken by anything except a catapult and cannot capture anything. Only Knights Cardinals and Assassins can get around it. Everything else is blocked Everything else extrapolated from standard chess.
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Author: Ben M Reiniger.
Last revised by Ben Reiniger.
Web page created: 2012-06-27. Web page last updated: 2024-02-23