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Mad Elephant Chess. Pawns can be turned into Elephants; Elephants can promote to Mad Elephants, and Mad Elephants can trample lines of pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Walker wrote on Fri, Jan 15, 2021 05:56 PM UTC in reply to Gary Gifford from Fri Jun 2 2006 11:02 PM:

Saying this is like "Shatranj with elephants raised on a diet of TNT and nitroglycerin" might be understating it. Anyway, if the Mad Elephant is slightly stronger than a Queen, then I might make an appropriate sub-subvariant: Like the subvariant "No Starting Elephants," but the Queen is replaced by a Mad Elephant, so the setup is approximately the same, but Elephants can still come into the game easily and the Queen is slightly stronger. To balance out the stronger Queen, I might use R7 or R6 for the Rook, and if this were added to Chess With Different Armies, I'd call it the Elephant Army.

Gary Gifford wrote on Fri, Jun 2, 2006 11:02 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

This game reminds me of Shatranj with elephants raised on a diet of TNT and
nitroglycerin.  I have no doubt that it would make for a very fun 10 or 15
minute game using a chess-clock.  Longer e-mail type games could require
lots of deep thought and could result in some hair-pulling.

I did notice a slight error in the rules.  There is this statement,
'Elephants move like Alfils, a jump of two squares in any direction,
leaping over any pieces that may occupy the first square.'  It should
state 'any diagonal direction' instead of 'any direction.'

A clever idea.... perhaps there should be a pre-set so players could start
getting rated at this wild game?

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