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Royal Pawn Chess. The e2 and e7 pawns are royal, but Kings are not. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jeremy Good wrote on Thu, Apr 6, 2006 04:57 AM UTC:
Goal is to checkmate the Royal Pawn.

Namik Zade wrote on Thu, Apr 6, 2006 07:09 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
I hope we can play this game in the Game Courier!

Tony Quintanilla wrote on Thu, Apr 6, 2006 05:02 PM UTC:
Namik, you can! See the related item (green icon).

Jeremy Good wrote on Thu, Apr 6, 2006 07:09 PM UTC:
Thanks for doing that, Tony.

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Fri, Apr 7, 2006 09:49 PM UTC:
How does promotion of royal pawn work?

Jeremy Good wrote on Fri, Apr 7, 2006 10:12 PM UTC:
See 2 (quoted below). Promoting a royal pawn is an alternate method of winning.

2. In the unlikely event a royal pawn reaches the eighth rank, that shall
be a game ending move counting as a win.

Sam Trenholme wrote on Fri, Apr 14, 2006 11:14 PM UTC:
Since the King is not royal, can the King put itself in check or castle through check?

- Sam


Jeremy Good wrote on Sun, Apr 16, 2006 10:41 PM UTC:
Yes, unlike in FIDE chess, the king can even sacrifice it/himself. The only checkable piece is that highly vulnerable Royal Pawn, sadly restricted to ordinary pawn movements. So yes, the king can put itself in 'check.' And the king can castle through 'check.' Although the king is allowed to castle, I doubt one will encounter a worthwhile excuse to move the king further away from the center of the board where royal pawns are likely to be confined for most of the game (The king will likely wish to remain there too, in the center, at first to defend, later maybe even to attack). To talk about the king in this way (in terms of 'check') is, of course, misleading, since the king is not subject to check. I'm sorry I didn't make that explicit in my rather terse description of the rules for this page.

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