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Andy Thomas wrote on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 08:31 AM UTC:
a friend of mine had one of these sets... it was called 'battle chess' or
somesuch... for all intents and purposes, it was the same as one pictured
here... with 2 players, you could play 'corners' where each player had
two neighboring colors, or you could play 'criss cross' where each
player controlled two colors opposite one another... you could also play
with 4 players, or with 3 players... there are a lot of possible
variations... once we had 3 players and made the 4th color operable by all
3 of us... we took turns making the 4th army's moves... :)

in any event, like any other variant, this sort of game can sharpen your
wits for FIDE chess by exercising your brain 'outside of the box'... and
perhaps that's at least one of the reasons we play, 'chess variants'...

all in all, i highly recommend 'taurus chess'...