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Vao. moves like bishop but must jump when taking.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Mon, Mar 25 11:24 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:03 AM:

The setup is different from Eurasian Chess.

The name of page is: Improved version of Chinese and Western chess (not sure if it is the name of the game also)

From what I understand, the Elephant 象 plays as International Chess Bishop. Pawn, Rook, Knight, King, Queen are identical to Int. Chess. Cannon is like in xiangqi, and Crossbow, 弩, is a diagonal cannon.

The "Holy", 圣, is not a Bishop. Its move is not clear to me, it is said to attack 12 squares.

Then we have: 3rd rank: 10 Pawns 2nd rank: void/N/Crossbow/B/Holy/Holy/B/Crossbow/N/void 1st rank: R/Cannon/void/void/Q/K/void/void/Cannon/R Both sides mirror each other.