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Mastodon Chess (8x10). Standard pieces plus two Mastodons per side. A strategical big-board variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝M Winther wrote on Sun, Apr 22, 2007 06:53 PM UTC:
My Mastodon Zillions programs are now much improved: Mastodon 8x10 and Mastodon 10x10. Also my Mammoth programs, which are drop variants, have been much improved. I say this because I am very fond of the Mastodon, the earliest appearance of which I know is Greenwood's Renniassance Chess (1980), where it is called Squire. Does anybody know of an earlier history? It is a very attractive piece with very special tactical capabilities, lethal in the king attack. It is perfect on big boards because it is equal to the rook, which simplifies matters, and which is just right strength. On an 8x8 board it is worth 6, it seems, which is rook + pawn.
/Mats