2 | Bishops and queen are less powerful then in standard chess.
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.
10 Stalemate or bare king counts as a win, but two bare kings count as a draw.
12 Note: I didn't find nice images for general and elephants.
13 Please tell me if you have some :)
16 | I implemented a slightly different version of Shatranj
17 | as described for example
18 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/shatranj.html")
19 | on chessvariants.com
20 | , because otherwise elephants could only evolve on a quarter of the board,
21 | and the vizirs would be colorbound as well as the promoted pawns.
24 So, while trying to keep the feeling of this old game,
25 here is what I came up with:
28 Elephants can move by one or two squares diagonally.
29 Only the 2-squares moves (maybe jumping over a piece) can capture.
31 Generals can move (without capturing) to any adjacent square
32 horizontally or vertically.
33 They capture on any diagonally adjacent square, so that a general
34 corresponds to a natural pawn promotion.
35 p All other pieces move like in orthodoxe chess.
37 figure.diagram-container
39 | fen:2bkn3/7R/2qPP3/8/8/3n4/1r3r2/3K4:
40 figcaption White can mate in two moves: see problems section.