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| 2 | | A horde of 36 pawns is fighting to checkmate the king. |
| 3 | | Black goal is to eliminate all white pieces. |
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| 5 | p. |
| 6 | The initial configuration shows 36 white pawns, filling the four first ranks |
| 7 | and half of the fifth: |
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| 10 | .diagram |
| 11 | | fen:rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/1PP2PP1/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP/PPPPPPPP: |
| 12 | figcaption Deterministic starting position. |
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| 14 | p. |
| 15 | From white perspective, the material is unusual but the goal is the same as |
| 16 | in orthodox chess. Since there is no white king, black wins by capturing all |
| 17 | white pieces. |
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| 19 | p. |
| 20 | There is no castling, but en-passant captures may be executed after each two |
| 21 | squares pawn move, either from the first or second rank. |
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| 23 | h3 Source |
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| 26 | | This variant is inspired by |
| 27 | a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/unequal.dir/dunsany.html") |
| 28 | | Dunsany's Chess |
| 29 | | , invented by Lord Dunsany in 1942. The additional white pawns are here to |
| 30 | | balance the game. See also |
| 31 | a(href="https://lichess.org/variant/horde") Horde on lichess.org |
| 32 | | and |
| 33 | a(href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/136BCRPzm1QH_OBK3qjKwlmK3MIji7ZmLZPMYgDpmOCU/edit") |
| 34 | | this document |
| 35 | | about the strategy to adopt for both sides. |