First Rogue Elephant Chess Game

From the brilliant inventor who brought you Upgrade Chess, here is his latest new awesome chess variant: Rogue Elephant Chess!

Here's the rules: http://blog.chess.com/ichabod801/icks-variants-iii-rogue-elephant

Upside-down queen = counsellor

When a piece is promoted, I'll put a little plus sign next to it. In the case of the counsellor, it will be replaced by a bishop.

Players:

White: preachingforjesus - pawn, elephant

Black: ichabod801 -

Move List:

1. e3 e6
2. d3 e5
3. e4 d6
4. c3 Nd7
5. d4 c6
6. Nf3 Ee6
7. Nbd2 Eh6
8. Ee3 exd4
9. cxd4 Ef4
10. Nb3 Ec4
11. g6 @d2+
12. Nbxd2 Exd2=M+
13. Nxd2 N@g2#

Well, if it's going to be the first game of this, I guess I better play it. I would suggest putting an "x" for promoted pieces, since they gain one square of diagonal movement.

hmm... this variant looks far to humdrum for me. Two dimensions, no peice exchange or mutation, no changing board, 6 types of peices. BORING!

 Sure.

lol @ D_Plew's comment

I will play

I flipped a coin and got tails, so you get white. Your move.

according to the rules list the bishops are nat on the board at the begining.

The bishop symbols are representing what now. 

Good point. He replaced the knights with elephants when he should have replaced the bishops with elephants. So, where the elephants are now there should be knights, and where the bishops are now there should be elephants. I will try to fix that and post a correct diagram after dinner.

Oops.

I'll fix the diagram since it's my fault.

But at 7:30 US Pacific Time I'm leaving, and the rest of my problems are transferred to you.

I emailed you the bigger version.

1. e3

I have observed that counselor, captain and charger all starrt with "C".

I recomend using the folowing notations for moves:

C = counselor

H = charger

A = captain

charger and captain using the second letter in like manner that knight uses "N".

White: preachingforjesus

Black: ichabod801

1. e3 e6
2. d3 e5

Is it me, or is Oinquarki using Horton for the Elepant?

2. d3

for piece names how about:

Unpromoted                    Promoted

Pawn                             Sargent

Rook                              Dragon

Knight                            Lord

Elephant                        Mastadon

Counselor                       Bishop

King

Notice that the elephants must promote on the seventh rank as they cannot reach the eighth. does any piece promote on the seventh, or just elephants? 

we could promote king to sovereign.

Sovereign moves two squares in any direction, cannot jump pieces, cannot move through check.

we might consider the restriction that pieces can only be placed on the four ranks closest to you.

I don't know about footman for the promoted pawn. How about Sergeant?

Generally pawns and elephants will promote on the seventh rank. However, you could drop a pawn on the seventh rank or an elephant on the sixth, and then they would promote on the eighth rank.

I don't want to promote kings or restrict drops, because neither of those are features of Shogi, which Rogue Elephant is meant to mirror. Not that there couldn't be another variant with those features, but let us try without.

e5 (I can't update the board while I'm at work)

3. e4