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@wdtr2
Can pawns promote to anything when they do promote?
Also, my name if Florea!...
This game makes for a fine blend of two already interesting games.
At first when playing I felt like I was starting out missing an important pawn, but then I remembered that in chess, the Exchange Variation of the French Defence can produce plenty of interesting and decisive games, even between strong players.
@wdtr2 Thanks for mentionning me. It would help to also include why, but maybe that's not crucial :)! Have fun!
The rules have been updated for elephant, cannon, and Pawns.
While it's easy enough to guess your intention by looking at the Shako and Balbo pages, this page should mention the powers of the elephant and cannon, pawn starts and promotions. (I guess castling is pretty obviously out.)
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This is an excellent chess variant, and is one of my favorites. I think it plays better than either of the games from which it is derived. The starting position is carefully considered, allowing a wide variety of different openings.
The rook should still be worth slightly more than the bishop on this board but it is very close. I performed the mobility calculation. With a 30% board occcupancy, the rook's average mobility is 9.8 whereas the bishop's is 9.2. And the mobility of the rook increases faster than that of the bishop as the board clears out.