Cheskers

Cheskers is a variant of checkers and chess invented by Solomon Golomb in 1948.[1][2]

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8
b8 black upside-down knight
d8 black king
f8 black king
h8 black bishop
a7 black pawn
c7 black pawn
e7 black pawn
g7 black pawn
b6 black pawn
d6 black pawn
f6 black pawn
h6 black pawn
a3 white pawn
c3 white pawn
e3 white pawn
g3 white pawn
b2 white pawn
d2 white pawn
f2 white pawn
h2 white pawn
a1 white bishop
c1 white king
e1 white king
g1 white upside-down knight
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Start position
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8
b8 black bishop
a7 black cross
c7 black cross
g7 black pawn
d6 black cross
f6 black circle
h6 black circle
a5 white circle
c5 white circle
e5 black cross
b4 white king
f4 white cross
h4 white cross
a3 white circle
c3 white circle
g3 black cross
d2 white cross
h2 black cross
g1 white upside-down knight
8
77
66
55
44
33
22
11
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Moves without the capture. White can move the king to any of the four squares with a white dot, or the camel to any square with a white cross. Black can move the bishop to any of the squares with a black cross (as well as the f4-square), the black pawn can move to either of the squares with a black dot.
  1. ^ Chess Variants.
  2. ^ Pritchard, D.B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Surrey, UK: Games and Puzzles Publications. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1.