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SHORANJI

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SHORANJI is a variant of Six Fortresses Short Range. It is played the same, except on a larrger board and pawns are allowed an initial 2-step move as in chess; also, there is pawn en passant. Note that you can reposition Wazirs and Ferz (per rules) prior to white's first move. /play/pbm/play.php?game%3DSHORANJI%26settings%3Ddefault-ji Please cut-and-paste the above URL should the link not work automatically.

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By Gary K. Gifford.
Web page created: 2006-12-30. Web page last updated: 2006-12-30