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Wildebeest Chess. Variant on an 10 by 11 board with extra jumping pieces. (11x10, Cells: 110) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
M Winther wrote on Tue, Nov 14, 2006 08:12 AM UTC:
Cazaux's Zillions implementation of Wildebeest Chess has a bug: 
when a pawn makes a triplicate step, an opponent pawn cannot 
capture 'en passant' if the bypassing pawn ends up on the rank behind.  
http://www.chessvariants.com/programs.dir/zillions/wildebeest.zip
http://www.chessvariants.com/programs.dir/zillions/cazauxchess.zip

Moreover, Cazaux's implementation of Bolyar Chess (in casauxchess.zip)
doesn't seem to follow the rules that appear on the Internet, and which I 
have recently implemented. Cazaux gives no source for his version of the 
rules. Instead Omega Chess is described. My Bolyar Chess:
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/bolyarchess.htm  /Mats