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   2   | Bishops and queen are less powerful then in standard chess.
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   4 ul
   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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  20 p.
  21   So, while trying to keep the feeling of this old game,
  22   here is what I came up with:
  23 ul
  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.
  32 p All other pieces move like in orthodoxe chess.
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  34 figure.diagram-container
  35   .diagram
  36     | fen:2bkn3/7R/2qPP3/8/8/3n4/1r3r2/3K4:
  37   figcaption White can mate in two moves: see problems section.