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Mad King Chess

This is a rules file for Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules to. With Zillions-of-Games installed, this rules file will let you play this game against your computer.

This Zillions implementation contains two variants:

Emperor-style Mad King. Movement similar to the Emperor in several Shogi variants. Presented by R. Wayne Schmittberger as "Emperor King Chess".

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Amazon-style Mad King. This King is permitted to take an undefended opposing King as an Amazon. Similar to the exposure rule of Generals in XiangQi.

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Instructions on downloading this Zillions file:


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By Larry L. Smith.
Web page created: 2008-10-23. Web page last updated: 2008-10-23