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Manchala Chess. On 10 by 10 board with new pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Jun 30, 2005 09:33 PM UTC:Poor ★
This game has a line of pawns on the third rank, and super-pawns on the second rank (pawn+knight). These pieces can defend each other like crazy, and you would have to sacrafice your pawns like crazy to smash through so formidable a defense. And the remaining pieces aren't very powerful at all. It seems to me that defense is clearly superior to offense in this game.

David Paulowich wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 10:13 PM UTC:
I assume Manchala Chess starts with Camels on BOTH (a1) AND (j1).

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Tue, Aug 30, 2005 01:40 AM UTC:
looks like 1 camel to me (diagram and text)

David Paulowich wrote on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 12:11 PM UTC:
My bad - was not expecting 29 pieces per side. I don't run JAVA on my computer and sometimes forget to check the source code for ffen2diag2. Strange initial setup: Kings on the e-file, White has a 'Queen's Camel', Black has a 'King's Camel'.

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