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Rank-behind-Rank Chess

By Sergey Sirotkin

Introduction

Rank-behind-Rank Chess is a variant of orthodox chess played on a board of twelve ranks by six files, with 30 pieces on a side, including two Kings per player. The goal is to capture or mate both opposing Kings.

Board and Setup

Rules

The game is conducted by rules of International Chess with the following changes:

The game is won by checkmating a player's last King.

Zillions of Games

There is an implementation of Rank-behind-Rank Chess for Zillions of games. You can download it here:



Written by Sergey Sirotkin. HTML Conversion by Peter Aronson.
WWW page created: May 21st, 2001.