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Alice Chess II

If you had a Java-capable browser, you could play Alice Chess II here.
Keys "s"=save "l"=load "b"=back once

As the more popular variant, but the units begin on opposite boards.

Thanks to Arnold Preston (12/7/06) for reminding me that because a move must be legal on the original board and that a king therefore must not move into check. The error has been corrected.

Alice Chess

Hans Bodlaender's Chess Variants
Hans Bodlaender's Chess Applet