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Chess and a Half. Game with extra leapers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Ben Reiniger wrote on Sat, Jul 1, 2017 03:09 PM UTC:

I would prefer you upload the board image to this site (there's a link near the end of the article with a link to "upload images"; after uploading, you can replace the url of the imgur image with the one from this site.

You'll need to elaborate on some rules:
#3: is that in addition to the other (standard) pieces?  (Why can't they promote to star cat?)
#4: do you mean any number of capturing moves in succession (sort of like checkers)?  Can a cat promote mid-capture-chain?
#5: in FIDE chess one can resign at any time, so this isn't really a new rule.

I'm curious whether you tested a board with fewer than 12 ranks.  At first, I thought the full 12 ranks was too many with the inclusion of short-range cats, but maybe the multi-capture counters that?

This needn't be mentioned in the article, but I will point out that the star cats are the Half-Ducks from The Remarkable Rookies of CWDA (but with multicapture capability).