| | 1 | p.boxed |
| | 2 | | Bishops and queen are less powerful then in standard chess. |
| | 3 | |
| | 4 | p. |
| | 5 | From left to right, with Thai names in parentheses: rook (Ruea), |
| | 6 | knight (Ma), bishop (Khon), queen (Met), king (Khun). |
| | 7 | |
| | 8 | figure.showPieces.text-center |
| | 9 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wr.svg") |
| | 10 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wn.svg") |
| | 11 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wb.svg") |
| | 12 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wq.svg") |
| | 13 | img(src="/images/pieces/Makruk/wk.svg") |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | ul |
| | 16 | li All pieces except bishops and queen move like in orthodox chess. |
| | 17 | li The queen moves by one square in any diagonal direction. |
| | 18 | li The bishop moves one square forward, or like a queen. |
| | 19 | li The only special move is the pawn promotion, always to a queen. |
| | 20 | li There is no castling option. |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | p. |
| | 23 | Pawns promote on the sixth rank, into a queen but still represented |
| | 24 | like a pawn, as illustrated on the diagram. |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | figure.diagram-container |
| | 27 | .diagram.diag12 |
| | 28 | | fen:8/8/8/4P3/8/8/8/8: |
| | 29 | .diagram.diag22 |
| | 30 | | fen:8/8/4F3/8/8/8/8/8: |
| | 31 | figcaption Before and after pawn promotion on e6. |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | h3 Source |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | p |
| | 36 | a(href="https://www.pychess.org/variant/makruk") |
| | 37 | | Makruk |
| | 38 | | on pychess-variants (playable there). This variant is also playable |
| | 39 | a(href="https://www.playok.com/en/makruk/") on playok |
| | 40 | | . |
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