Attempt to clarify installation instructions a little
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2 | Bishops and queen are less powerful then in standard chess.
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5 li Elephants replace the orthodox bishops.
6 li General or vizir replace the orthodox queen.
7 li The only special pawn move is the promotion, always to a vizir.
8 li There is no castling option.
9 li.
10 Stalemate or bare king counts as a win, but two bare kings count as a draw.
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13 | I implemented a slightly different version of Shatranj
14 | as described for example
15 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/shatranj.html")
16 | on chessvariants.com
17 | , because otherwise elephants could only evolve on a quarter of the board,
18 | and the vizirs would be colorbound as well as the promoted pawns.
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20p.
21 So, while trying to keep the feeling of this old game,
22 here is what I came up with:
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24 li.
25 Elephants can move by one or two squares diagonally.
26 Only the 2-squares moves (maybe jumping over a piece) can capture.
27 li.
28 Generals can move (without capturing) to any adjacent square
29 horizontally or vertically.
30 They capture on any diagonally adjacent square, so that a general
31 corresponds to a natural pawn promotion.
32p All other pieces move like in orthodoxe chess.
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35 .diagram
36 | fen:2bkn3/7R/2qPP3/8/8/3n4/1r3r2/3K4:
37 figcaption White can mate in two moves: see problems section.