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Russian Chess. Pieces are not removed when captured, but stacked. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Ed wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 01:56 AM EST:
If the king is within a stack, can that stack cross a square that is under attack by the opponent?

Ivan A Derzhanski wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 06:28 AM EST:
The King can never be within a stack. You may not capture your own King (otherwise the first thing you'd do would be to use your Queen to do so, creating a royal Queen that would be very hard to checkmate), and, as in OrthoChess, a King may not be left _en prise_ until checkmated. --ID

Ed wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 11:16 PM EST:
Thanks for clarifying.  Can you castle using a rook which has
been 'captured' but not left its original square and is now in
a friendly stack?

Ivan A Derzhanski wrote on Tue, Apr 1, 2003 07:17 AM EST:
The site gives no explicit answer to that question. My own opinion is as follows: Since it is the topmost man that determines who the stack belongs to and how it moves, you shouldn't be able to castle with a Rook that's inside a stack. You should, however, regain the option of doing so if the Rook is uncaptured without having been moved out of the corner. Likewise, a Pawn captured and released before having moved should be able to make a double move. --ID

JorgKnappen wrote on Fri, Aug 22, 2003 08:23 AM EDT:
The game resembles much to Pillar Chess (described on this site)
and >>Das trojanische Spiel<< (commercial, german game, having a link
in the german section of this site).

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Mar 8, 2004 12:17 PM EST:Excellent ★★★★★
I was thinking of submitting a smiilar variant myself. Just as well that I saw this page first and saved the bother.

Anonymous wrote on Sat, Sep 25, 2004 05:07 PM EDT:Poor ★
because i am elderly man.

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Yu Ren Dong wrote on Sun, Feb 5, 2012 12:35 AM EST:
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