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Maces, Shields, and Horse-apults

This page contains one or more presets for playing a game online with Game Courier, an online server for playing Chess variants by correspondence.

The preset is here.

The rules are here.

This game is much like Maces and Horse-apults. The biggest difference is that the Pawns are "shielded" and cannot be captured by the Maces.


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By Gary K. Gifford.
Web page created: 2008-03-10. Web page last updated: 2008-03-10