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2dShape

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Author: Ed Friedlander. Inventor: M G Balbo.

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Balbo's Chess. Odd-shaped board, bishops as powerful as knights.
Gary Gifford wrote on Sat, Dec 3, 2005 10:21 PM EST:Good ★★★★
This game seems like fun and is a bit different.  I did not see a game
courier for this game but believe it highly deserves one, so I made one. 
It does not enforce rules.  It can be found at the following link.


http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DBalbo%27s+Chess%26settings%3Dbalboa

Michael wrote on Sat, Dec 3, 2005 04:17 PM EST:Excellent ★★★★★
After playing this a few times agenst the computer I've deduced the game is more fun then chess. Thoe I would like to try this out agenst a human.

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