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Jumping Chess. Pieces capture by jumping. Board has extra edge squares making it 10x10. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Apr 21, 2003 07:10 AM UTC:
There is one thing that seems not quite right in this game: the Knight's
capture. Every other piece can capture only the pieces that it would be
able to capture in standard Chess. For the King and Pawn this comes at the
price of moving twice as far as would otherwise be possible, which is
consistent with capturing moves in Draughts. No piece can capture using
its shortest possible move: for example there is no question of capturing
a piece on a2 or b1 by moving from a1 to b2. It would be better for the
Knight's capture to be of a piece a normal Knight's move away by moving
to the square a Knight's move beyond that.