Some fixes. Screen variant computer play is still broken, seemingly
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2 | Pieces in the first half of the board are yours. Captures are mandatory.
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5 All pieces are of the same color (black on the website), but in fact
6 pieces just have no color: you control all
7 pieces which stand in the half-board in front of you. These pieces can
8 only capture on the other half-board.
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11 Since captures are mandatory, pieces could make some round-trips
12 around the board, changing owner at every mid-board crossing.
13 For example on the following diagram, the sequence will be 1.Rxd7 Rxd1
14 2.Rxd8 and black would win, assuming the final rank is 8th.
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17 .diagram.diag12
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20 | fen:3b4/3r4/8/8/8/8/8/3n4:
21 figcaption Before and after Rxd7
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24 Knights become knightriders: they can make any number of knight steps in a
25 direction. There are no en-passant captures, and no castle.
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27h3 Source
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30 | Strongly inspired by
31 a(href="http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Games/monochess.html")
32 | Monochrome Chess
33 | , but I wanted a version without points counting.
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35p Inventor: Andrew Looney (1996)