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2 | | Bishops and queen are less powerful then in standard chess. | |
3 | ||
4 | p. | |
5 | From left to right, with Thai names in parentheses: rook (Ruea), | |
6 | knight (Ma), bishop (Khon), queen (Met), king (Khun). | |
7 | ||
8 | figure.showPieces.text-center | |
9 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wr.svg") | |
10 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wn.svg") | |
11 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wb.svg") | |
12 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wq.svg") | |
13 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wk.svg") | |
14 | ||
15 | ul | |
16 | li All pieces except bishops and queen move like in orthodox chess. | |
17 | li The queen moves by one square in any diagonal direction. | |
18 | li The bishop moves one square forward, or like a queen. | |
19 | li The only special move is the pawn promotion, always to a queen. | |
20 | li There is no castling option. | |
21 | ||
22 | p. | |
23 | Pawns promote on the sixth rank, into a queen but still represented | |
24 | like a pawn, as illustrated on the diagram. | |
25 | ||
26 | figure.diagram-container | |
27 | .diagram.diag12 | |
28 | | fen:8/8/8/4P3/8/8/8/8: | |
29 | .diagram.diag22 | |
30 | | fen:8/8/4F3/8/8/8/8/8: | |
31 | figcaption Before and after pawn promotion on e6. | |
32 | ||
33 | h3 Source | |
34 | ||
35 | p | |
36 | a(href="https://www.pychess.org/variant/makruk") | |
37 | | Makruk | |
38 | | on pychess-variants (playable there). This variant is also playable | |
39 | a(href="https://www.playok.com/en/makruk/") on playok | |
40 | | . |