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Turkish Great Chess II. Gollon's large historical variant. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Tony Quintanilla wrote on Sat, Jul 12, 2003 11:05 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Besides its historical interest, this is a very interesting variant. The different central Pawns and the central Knights are intriguing. The selective use of the 3rd or forward rank bears consideration in designing other games too.

📝John Ayer wrote on Wed, Aug 6, 2003 04:26 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
If we call the armed female attendants Qalmaqini, and the bishop-knight a Bukhshi, then the king is called Shah instead of Padshah (emperor), and they are arranged Bukhshi, Wazir, Shah, Shahzadeh from left to right across each player's four central squares on the home-row. Murray says the version shown in the diagram above is the corrected version, but this other arrangement has its own internal logic. Probably there was some experimenting.

Yu Ren Dong wrote on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 09:31 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
I think this version is better than other Turkish Great Chess. 

Qalmaqini ,armed women, moves like a Shogi Pawn. Can Qalmaqini be promoted when reaching in the last rank?

John Smith wrote on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 03:29 AM UTC:Average ★★★
I think the Qalmaqini moves are explained as thus: Draw a line between the center of the Qalmaqini's square to the center of the opposing Padshah. The orthogonally or diagonally adjacent squares to the Qalmaqini that are in this path are which squares the Qalmaqini can move to. I do not think they promote since they can always potentially move.

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