Zillions of Games file for Moon Chess
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This is a zip file of a rules file for Zillions of Games and its accompanying graphics. Zillions of Games is a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules and graphics for.
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Moon Chess is a Zillions-of-Games file. It is categorized as: Orthodox chess, .
Author: Peter Aronson.
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Notes
This version of Half-Board Xiangi was based partly on the description of Half-Board Xiangqi in <a href="../xiangvar.html">A Xiangqi Variant</a>, and partly on a comment on that page in the old comment system by Ken Liao: <blockquote><i> I have seen this game, but with a few differences. Most of my relatives know this game as Moon Chess. The rules are basically correct, except that the ranking is wrong in your page. This is how most people I know play: General -> Guard -> Elephant -> Car -> Horse -> Soldier -> General (anglicized) King -> Guard -> Bishop -> Rook -> Knight -> Pawn -> King The cannon is special. It can take any piece, but only by jumping over another piece, at any distance, no matter if the piece is flipped over or not. It can move one space orthogonally. Any piece except the soldier can take the cannon. I am pretty sure this is the official way to play Moon Chess. </i></blockquote>
Other Information
The board used for this game has 4 row(s), 8 column(s), 32 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.
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See Also
An-Qi. Played on the squares of half a Xiangqi board but using all the pieces. (8x4, Cells: 32)
Peng Hu rules. Rules for half-board Xiangqi. (8x4, Cells: 32)
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