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2 | Every captured piece can be re-used by the capturer,
3 | landing it anywhere instead of moving a piece.
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5 h3 Specifications
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8 li Chessboard: standard.
9 li Material: standard.
10 li Non-capturing moves: standard.
11 li Special moves: standard + rebirth.
12 li Captures: standard.
13 li End of game: standard.
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15 h3 Basics
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18 | Orthodox rules apply, with only one change:
19 | every time a piece is captured, the capturer "reserve" of waiting pieces is
20 | augmented with this figure. At every move, you may choose to land one of your
21 | reserve pieces anywhere on the board (except first and last ranks for pawns),
22 | instead of playing a regular move.
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25 Move notation: an arobase '@' indicate piece landing. For example B@d4 means
26 a bishop rebirth on d4 square, and @f3 is a pawn landing on f3.
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29 .diagram
30 | fen:qnbrkb1r/ppNppp1p/2p2p2/8/8/5N2/P1PPPPPP/1RNQKBNR:
31 figcaption After 1.b3 Nf6 2.Bxf6 gxf6 3.Nf3 c6?? 4.N@c7#
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34 Note: capturing a promoted pawn put a pawn in the reserve,
35 not the promoted piece. This is to allow to gain material on last rank without
36 fear of giving a queen to the opponent.
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38 h3 Credits
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41 | This variant is very popular, a possible starting point is
42 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/other.dir/crazyhouse.html") lichess.org
43 | .