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Zeppelin Chess. (Updated!) Introducing the Zeppelin, which can fly to any empty square orthogonally (with zrf).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniel Zacharias wrote on Wed, Apr 2 12:02 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Tue Apr 1 06:42 AM:

In airplane chess

R. Wayne Schmittberg wrote on Fri, Feb 9, 2007 09:11 PM EST: An airplane, which moves in all queen directions, can fly over any number of pieces of either or both colors before landing (stopping). If the last square passed over before landing is enemy-occupied, the piece there is captured.

It looks like capture is mandatory for airplane chess. (the applet works that way) I assume it's the same for the zeppelin.