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Emperor Chess. Large chess variant with a Commander (Queen + Knight), two Queens, and two Emperors (Bishop + Lame Dabbabah-rider) per side. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝John Ayer wrote on Sun, Feb 16, 2003 12:24 AM UTC:
A second way to rescue the knight from irrelevance and bring its power into better proportion to the board would be to say that if the knight's first leap does not end in a capture, the knight may immediately make another leap. A third possibility would be to transform the knight into a wildebeest, or gnu. These two options would preserve the idea that the knight is a weapon with limited range.