Birds and Ninjas

This page contains one or more presets for playing a game online with Game Courier, an online server for playing Chess variants by correspondence.

The game is identical to orthodox chess except for extended en-passant rules, flexible castling and the new pieces.

The two extra Ninja Pawns in the presets disappear when started.
Drop a ninja pawn with ~P-e2
Drop /move forward pawn with ~P-e2; e2-e5

View logs for Birds and Ninjas

Ninja Pawn
Flying Bomber
Ninja Guard

Flying Bomber

The flying bomber moves exactly like a rook when not capturing, and captures by flying over (or overtaking) a piece and landing immediately on the empty square after it on the same orthogonal line. There must be an empty square after the piece. If there is another piece right after, then it cannot capture.

This is a special maneuver that enables the bird to fly over the adjacent square, (jumping over, if occupied by friendly piece or eliminating if occupied by enemy piece) and land like a helicopter on a square exactly 2 squares away, capturing if possible on this square. Thus, it can capture two pieces in this manner.

Ninja Guard

Click here to play using board position #2
This board position is ideal for the Birds and Leaping Ninjas subvariation in which the Ninja Guards can also move like Camels!