Coward Chess

This is a rules file for Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules to. With Zillions-of-Games installed, this rules file will let you play this game against your computer.

In this Chess variant, 'The King is a Fink'*

Played as Normal Chess excepting that the King (renamed 'Coward') captures as usual, but otherwise moves a square only by switching places with an adjoining friend piece.  Normal distant Rook Castling rules still apply.

Includes 11 chess subvariants, from Zillions' Chess.zrf, plus its main variant.
*a saying from the Wizard of ID [TM] comics strip.

Download Instructions

Instructions on downloading this Zillions file:

Download the .zip file
Extract the contents of the .zip file to your Zillions of Games folder
Be sure you have the "Use folder names" checkbox checked when you extract the files.

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By Ken Franklin.
Web page created: 2008-03-22. Web page last updated: 2008-03-22