2 | Pieces in the first half of the board are yours. Captures are mandatory.
5 All pieces are of the same color (black on the website), but in fact
6 pieces just have no color: you control all
7 pieces which stand in the half-board in front of you. These pieces can
8 only capture on the other half-board.
11 Since captures are mandatory, pieces could make some round-trips
12 around the board, changing owner at every mid-board crossing.
13 For example on the following diagram, the sequence will be 1.Rxd7 Rxd1
14 2.Rxd8 and black would win, assuming the final rank is 8th.
16 figure.diagram-container
18 | fen:3b4/3q4/8/8/8/8/3r4/3n4:
20 | fen:3b4/3r4/8/8/8/8/8/3n4:
21 figcaption Before and after Rxd7
24 Knights become knightriders: they can make any number of knight steps in a
25 direction. There are no en-passant captures, and no castle.
30 | Strongly inspired by
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33 | , but I wanted a version without points counting.
35 p Inventor: Andrew Looney (1996)