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I have updated the Glinski Chess implementation on Jocly to match rule 2. The Android and iPhone/iPad apps are still using rule 1 until the next upgrade.
(Maybe you added it after finding an answer on wikipedia, but that pawn rule currently appears here as rule 3.)
I found the answer on Wikipedia. It says "If a pawn captures from its starting cell in such a way that it then occupies a starting cell of another pawn, it can still make a double move."
I am working on a new Game Courier preset for this game that should handle win/loss conditions, and it occurred to me that double moves can be handled in one of two ways.
- A double move is allowed only on a Pawn's first move.
- A double move is allowed from any space the same player could start his Pawns on.
Has there been any ruling on which is correct? It makes a difference if a Pawn moves to another space that another of his Pawns started on by capturing a piece.
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For my own comparison of this fine variant to the equally fine McCooey's Hexagonal Chess, see my review for the latter variant.
Decades ago I saw values given for the pieces in Glinski's (that would seem to apply to McCooey's too): P=1; B=3; N=4; R=5; Q=9. I'd add that I estimate the fighting value of K=4 approximately (though naturally it cannot be traded).