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John Wycliffe wrote on Thu, May 4, 2017 02:26 PM UTC:

19x12 board. A player's pieces start on one of either three rows on either side. Pawns go on the outer row. There are two colors. White and Red. White may choose either Chinese pawns or international pawns. Chinese chess pawns go on every other square on the outer most row, international chess pawns on every square on the outer most row.

On the inner two rows, players get to choose how to place their pieces, but they place one piece at a time. Cannons and archers must be placed first on the innermost row and they must be placed first. White places a piece first. White also moves his pieces first after placing them.

The pieces are: 
1 Marshall - which can move like a rook and a knight. 
1 Archbishop which can move like a bishop and a knight. 
2 Cannons - which moves like a rook except it must skip over a piece to take. 
1 Archer - which moves like a bishop except it must skip over a piece to take.
1 Magician - which may move in any direction, but must jump over a space. They take on any occupied space they move to. Any piece they take, the player may place a version of that piece controlled by them on their inner most starting row.
2 Rooks
2 Bishops and 2 knights
1 King and 1 Queen

No castling
The objective is to take the king.
Pawn promotion rule.
50 move rule
If one moves the king to opposite side of the board, one can drop a super unit on your inner most starting line:

Fairy - Able to move like a queen and a knight
Dragon - Able to move/take like a queen and a cannon

Phoenix - Able to move/take like a queen and an archer


Aurelian Florea wrote on Thu, May 4, 2017 02:45 PM UTC:

I find it odd that there is only one archer(a colorbound piece). Besides that a neat initiative!


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