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Ecumenical Chess

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Ecumenical Chess combines FIDE pieces with the Canvasser, Camel-Rook compound, with the Caliph, Camel-Bishop Compound, and the Gnu, Camel-Knight compound:

Gnu

Canvasser

Caliph

Click on this button to play Simple Ecumenical Chess:

Logs of Simple Ecumenical Chess

Ecumenical Chess on an 8 x 8 board without any pawns:

Logs of Pawnless Ecumenical Chess

Ecumenical Chess on a 12 x 12 board with twice as many elemental pieces but the same number of compounds:

Logs of Reinforcement Ecumenical Chess

Special thanks to Christine Bagley-Jones for creating the Canvasser piece for me. - JGG


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Author: Jeremy Gabriel Good. Inventor: Charles Gilman.
Web page created: 2006-06-23. Web page last updated: 2006-06-23