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Ultima. Game where each type of piece has a different capturing ability. Also called Baroque. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Mar 11, 2023 06:17 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 06:05 PM:

To answer my question, I looked up the chapter on Ultima in Pritchard's Popular Chess Variants, and he wrote, "An immobilized king can be mated by its rival moving next to it." So, unless Abbott has said differently somewhere, I'll take this as the rule.