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Chess on a Really Big Board. Chess on multiple chess boards. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Oct 5, 2017 11:32 AM UTC:
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Four Board Chess

This variant contains a number of unusual pieces, amongst which the Rose, which can only reach its full move potential on very large boards such as this. I invented the names of the other unorthodox pieces myself, to correspond with the 'random letters' that Betza originally assigned to them.