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Eurasian Chess. Synthesis of European and Asian forms of Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Mar 18, 2010 09:18 PM UTC:
Since I don't play Chu Shogi, I wasn't aware of the Free King. For the context of this game, it's nice to know that the Queen has a counterpart in Japan. So, all the pieces in Western Chess are used in Asian variants, and it seems that the most distinctly European features of this game are the Pawn's double move and en passant capture, which are not found in Asian variants, the Pawn promotion rules borrowed from the European game Grand Chess, and the Vao, invented by a European.