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Five Tigers Chess. Variant of Chinese Chess. Red can make two pawn moves per turn but.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2004 07:06 PM UTC:
This position is not checkmate, even though it was declared to be such:
(Note: only Black's side of the River is shown.)
+---N---E---G---K---G---E---C---R
|   |   |   | \ | / |   |   |   |
R---+---+---p---+---+---+---+---+
|   |   |   | / | \ |   |   |   |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---N
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
P---+---+---p---+---+---P---+---P
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
Black can play R1.2 . Of course, this will be followed by P6+1, P6+1,
which is checkmate.