Remove extra words in maxima rules
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2 Pieces movements and captures are complex.
3 You can win by occupying the two squares of the last rank.
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8 figcaption Initial deterministic position
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11 | The pawns, queen, rook, inverted rook and knights are respectively called
12 | Pincers, Withdrawer, Coordinator, Immobilizer and Long Leapers. They behave
13 | exactly as in Baroque chess - so I won't describe them here, please read
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15 a(href="/#/variants/Baroque") Baroque rules
16 | .
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19 The bishop is a Chameleon, which capture pieces in the way themselves would
20 capture. Its captures are thus the same as in Baroque chess, with a few
21 exceptions: it captures the King and the Mage only when standing
22 on an adjacent square.
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24h3 New pieces, new movements
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27 | The inverted queen is a Mage, moving one square diagonally and then
28 | potentially several squares orthogonally as the figure
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29 | shows. It captures by replacement. See
30 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/piececlopedia.dir/griffon.html")
31 | this page
32 |  for a detailed introduction to this piece.
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37 figcaption Mage movements.
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39p In this game the Mage is the only piece which cannot be immobilized.
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42 The piece looking like a king without a cross moves and captures like a
43 regular king, but has no royal status. It is called a Guard in this game.
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46 Finally, the king moves like an orthodox knight with an extra ability:
47 he evolves on a cylindrical board. That means he can potentially move to the
48 columns 'a' or 'b' from the columns 'g' or 'h' (and vice versa).
49 He also capture by replacement.
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54 figcaption King movements.
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56h3 End of the game
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59 A stalemate is a draw, and a checkmate wins.
60 There are two other options to win a game:
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62 li.
63 Occupy both squares "of the enemy palace" (the two squares of the last
64 rank), or
65 li Capture all opponent' pieces (except the king).
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67 You can have one piece in your own palace, but it's forbidden to fully
68 occupy it.
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73 | The
74 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/dpieces.dir/maxima/maxima.html")
75 | Maxima variant
76 |  on chessvariants.com.
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38408f63 78p Inventor: Roberto Lavieri (2003)