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p.boxed
  | The player in second has a different set of pieces,
  | mostly coming from Chinese and Korean chess.

figure.diagram-container
  .diagram
    | fen:rneakenr/8/1c4c1/1ss2ss1/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR:
  figcaption Initial deterministic setup.

p.
  Synochess is a variant designed in 2020 by Couch Tomato.
  The idea is to permit the western chess army (white) to fight
  against the xiangqi or Chinese chess army (black) in a fair manner.
  The white army is called the Kingdom, while the black army represents
  an amalgamation of xiangqi and janggi (Korean chess)
  and is called the Dynasty.

p.
  The name Synochess is based off an earlier name, Sinochess, but it was
  changed as the Dynasty became less "Sino" (as in Chinese) and more a
  mixture of Chinese and Korean. Instead, the prefix syn- means together.

ul
  li The Kingdom (white) always moves first.
  li The Dynasty (black) cannot castle.
  li Dynasty soldiers do not promote (on last rank).

h3 Special Rules

ul
  li.
    King Faceoff &mdash; As in Xiangqi, Kings may not face each other
    (on a file or rank).
  li.
    Reinforcement Soldiers &mdash; Black starts with two soldiers in hand.
    Instead of moving a piece on the board, the Dynasty player can drop a
    soldier onto an open square in rank 5.
  li Campmate &mdash; A king that reaches the final rank wins the game.
  li.
    Stalemate &mdash; As in Xiangqi, stalemates
    and moves repetitions are a loss.

h3 Dynasty Pieces

p.
  Four new units on the Dynasty side: 6 Soldiers (2 start in
  hand), 2 Cannons, 2 Elephants, and 1 Advisor.
p.
  The Chariots are equal to the Rooks and use the same abbreviation (R)
  &mdash; the difference is purely cosmetic. Similarly, the Kings are the
  same, but just appear different.

ul
  li.
    Soldier (S) &mdash; The Soldiers can move one square orthogonally forward,
    or lateraly.
  li Advisor (A) &mdash; The Advisor moves and captures exactly like a king.
  li.
    Cannon (C) &mdash; The Cannon moves like a rook, but needs an
    intervening piece in-between to achieve a capture.
    It cannot hop over another cannon, however.
  li.
    Elephant (E) &mdash; The Elephant is a leaping piece that moves
    diagonally one or two spaces.

figure.diagram-container
  .diagram.diag12
    | fen:8/6P1/5P2/4e3/3P1p2/8/8/8 c3,c7,d4,d6,g3,f6,g7:
  .diagram.diag22
    | fen:3B4/3P4/8/1P1c1p1P/8/3c4/8/3N4 d8,d6,c5,e5,h5,d4:
  figcaption Elephant & Cannon movements.

h3 Piece valuation

p The following simplified values are used by the basic bot:

table
  tr
    th Kingdom piece
    th Value
    th Dynasty piece
    th Value
  tr
    td Pawn
    td 1
    td Soldier
    td 2
  tr
    td Queen
    td 9
    td Elephant
    td 2.75
  tr
    td Bishop
    td 3
    td Advisor
    td 2.75
  tr
    td Knight
    td 3
    td Cannon
    td 3
  tr
    td Rook
    td 5
    td Knight
    td 3
  tr
    td -
    td -
    td Chariot
    td 5

h3 More information

p
  | See 
  a(href="https://www.pychess.org/variant/synochess") Synochess
  | &nbsp;on pychess-variants, where you can also play this variant.
Commit	Line	Data
ea3b71d9 BA	1	p.boxed
	2	\| The player in second has a different set of pieces,
	3	\| mostly coming from Chinese and Korean chess.
1e8a8386	4
d35c037e BA	5	figure.diagram-container
	6	.diagram
	7	\| fen:rneakenr/8/1c4c1/1ss2ss1/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR:
	8	figcaption Initial deterministic setup.
	9
1e8a8386	10	p.
d35c037e BA	11	Synochess is a variant designed in 2020 by Couch Tomato.
	12	The idea is to permit the western chess army (white) to fight
	13	against the xiangqi or Chinese chess army (black) in a fair manner.
	14	The white army is called the Kingdom, while the black army represents
	15	an amalgamation of xiangqi and janggi (Korean chess)
	16	and is called the Dynasty.
1e8a8386 BA	17
	18	p.
	19	The name Synochess is based off an earlier name, Sinochess, but it was
	20	changed as the Dynasty became less "Sino" (as in Chinese) and more a
d35c037e	21	mixture of Chinese and Korean. Instead, the prefix syn- means together.
1e8a8386 BA	22
	23	ul
	24	li The Kingdom (white) always moves first.
	25	li The Dynasty (black) cannot castle.
d35c037e	26	li Dynasty soldiers do not promote (on last rank).
1e8a8386 BA	27
	28	h3 Special Rules
	29
	30	ul
	31	li.
	32	King Faceoff — As in Xiangqi, Kings may not face each other
d35c037e	33	(on a file or rank).
1e8a8386 BA	34	li.
	35	Reinforcement Soldiers — Black starts with two soldiers in hand.
	36	Instead of moving a piece on the board, the Dynasty player can drop a
d35c037e BA	37	soldier onto an open square in rank 5.
d35c037e BA	38	li Campmate — A king that reaches the final rank wins the game.
1e8a8386 BA	39	li.
	40	Stalemate — As in Xiangqi, stalemates
	41	and moves repetitions are a loss.
	42
	43	h3 Dynasty Pieces
	44
	45	p.
d35c037e	46	Four new units on the Dynasty side: 6 Soldiers (2 start in
1e8a8386 BA	47	hand), 2 Cannons, 2 Elephants, and 1 Advisor.
	48	p.
	49	The Chariots are equal to the Rooks and use the same abbreviation (R)
	50	— the difference is purely cosmetic. Similarly, the Kings are the
	51	same, but just appear different.
	52
d35c037e BA	53	ul
	54	li.
	55	Soldier (S) — The Soldiers can move one square orthogonally forward,
	56	or lateraly.
	57	li Advisor (A) — The Advisor moves and captures exactly like a king.
	58	li.
	59	Cannon (C) — The Cannon moves like a rook, but needs an
	60	intervening piece in-between to achieve a capture.
	61	It cannot hop over another cannon, however.
	62	li.
	63	Elephant (E) — The Elephant is a leaping piece that moves
	64	diagonally one or two spaces.
	65
	66	figure.diagram-container
	67	.diagram.diag12
	68	\| fen:8/6P1/5P2/4e3/3P1p2/8/8/8 c3,c7,d4,d6,g3,f6,g7:
	69	.diagram.diag22
	70	\| fen:3B4/3P4/8/1P1c1p1P/8/3c4/8/3N4 d8,d6,c5,e5,h5,d4:
	71	figcaption Elephant & Cannon movements.
	72
	73	h3 Piece valuation
	74
	75	p The following simplified values are used by the basic bot:
	76
	77	table
	78	tr
	79	th Kingdom piece
	80	th Value
	81	th Dynasty piece
	82	th Value
	83	tr
	84	td Pawn
	85	td 1
	86	td Soldier
	87	td 2
	88	tr
	89	td Queen
	90	td 9
	91	td Elephant
	92	td 2.75
	93	tr
	94	td Bishop
	95	td 3
	96	td Advisor
	97	td 2.75
	98	tr
	99	td Knight
	100	td 3
	101	td Cannon
	102	td 3
	103	tr
	104	td Rook
	105	td 5
	106	td Knight
	107	td 3
	108	tr
	109	td -
	110	td -
	111	td Chariot
	112	td 5
1e8a8386	113
d35c037e	114	h3 More information
1e8a8386	115
d35c037e BA	116	p
	117	\| See
	118	a(href="https://www.pychess.org/variant/synochess") Synochess
	119	\|  on pychess-variants, where you can also play this variant.