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OrthoChess fundamentalists say religiously that there are able to be more game scores on the perfected 8x8 than atoms in Universe, which is 10^80. RN206 Pawn Islands. Pawns must always form one continuous line, orthogonally or diagonally adjacent, or there are consequences. (a) no effect (b) Any smallest Pawn island of a side is removed from the board at its appearance immediately before that player's turn. If player causes the condition by own move, the offending Pawns are removed upon completion of that turn. If two smaller Pawn islands are equal, player chooses which one to remove. (c) 'b' except no removal of any island of five (d) 'c' except 4 or greater are exempt from removal (e) 'c' except 3 or greater are okay to remain (f) 'c' with however Knights and Falcons able to 'bridge' a Pawn chain, taken as 'continuity' and obviating any need for removal (g) 'f' Falcons, Knights and King (h) 'c' and Pawns can move one step laterally. (i) 'd', Pawns can move one step laterally. (j) 'e', Pawns can move one step laterally. (k) 'd' and 'h' (l) 'f' and 'h' (m) 'e', and Pawn islands so removed individually go back to any Pawn array square or, if they exhaust, any square in back rank. (n) 'f' and 'm' (o) 'e', 'g' and 'm' (p) 'g', 'h' and 'm'. Ongoing Cumulative # of individually-distinct 'CVs': 1.12949696 x 10^33. At over 230 tonnes if that number of molecules were living tissue, it exceeds the largest Blue Whale and largest ever dinosaur, probably Argentinasaurus, a sauropod, both by factor of 2 or 3. So, we leave living forms behind finally and can compare in volumes of astronomical bodies and chemical species inanimate with generally fewer atoms per molecule. [We get back on track by Earth's inclusive 10^49 or 10^50 atoms ahead; for what it is worth, here we already are exceeding life forms by factors of 20 or even 100. The comparisons visual do not affect the game-rules and their totals in combination.]