2 | Bishops and queen are less powerful then in standard chess.
5 From left to right, with Thai names in parentheses: rook (Ruea),
6 knight (Ma), bishop (Khon), queen (Met), king (Khun).
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")
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.
23 Pawns promote on the sixth rank, into a queen but still represented
24 like a pawn, as illustrated on the diagram.
26 figure.diagram-container
28 | fen:8/8/8/4P3/8/8/8/8:
30 | fen:8/8/4F3/8/8/8/8/8:
31 figcaption Before and after pawn promotion on e6.
36 a(href="https://www.pychess.org/variant/makruk")
38 | on pychess-variants (playable there). This variant is also playable
39 a(href="https://www.playok.com/en/makruk/") on playok