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Apothecary Chess-Modern. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Aurelian Florea wrote on Sat, Jun 6, 2020 06:24 AM UTC:

While working on the changes to the preset modifying it to include the joker drop rule, I have started pondering the idea of renouncing this rule.
The programming for the game has become to bloated and frankly I doubt the need for such a rule anymore.
To replace that the joker would start in the current king's place and the king a rank back. As a consequence the king will lose the special moves but gain a castle ability.
I hope the members of the community could offer an opinion about this change.

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