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Cardinal Chess

The most commonly known form of Western chess in its current state of "evolution" is with rook-bishop compound (sometimes called "Mad Queen") and Betza's Almost Chess substitutes the rook-knight compound. The once popular Amazon Chess substitutes a piece that combines all three minor piece properties.

So why not try it with the knight-bishop compound?

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Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Vitya Makov.

Last revised by H. G. Muller.


Web page created: 2009-09-07. Web page last updated: 2022-11-30