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josephruhf
Mar 21, 2023
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#1

Timecontrol

10 min

Gamerules

Sideways

Promotion

Chancellor, Archbishop, General, Knight-Rider, Queen, Xiangqi Horse, Wildebeest, Dragon Bishop on the 10th rank

Note

The original idea of this game was to emulate Cavalier Chess on chess.com. However Cavalier Chess has promotion rules which simply are not available in the variant editor. It also has the weakness of the Nightrider being able to immediately exchange for a Xiangqi Horse. So now there are Wildebeest and Sergeant Pawns. The Nightrider also came back into the game with the Sergeant Pawns for it to hide behind in the starting position. There is also a non-royal General allowing for a Sergeant Pawn to promote to a General. Finally it is a Crazyhouse variant.
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CGA
Mar 22, 2023
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#2
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Status: Declined

Reason: Duplicate of an existing post.

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noahfavelo
Mar 22, 2023
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#3

the promote to dragon bishop is not need since you can already promote to archbishop, and it is not game of points.

- ok, there is stalemate, but that almost never happens in a game like this.

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josephruhf
Mar 22, 2023
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noahfavelo wrote:

the promote to dragon bishop is not need since you can already promote to archbishop, and it is not game of points.

- ok, there is stalemate, but that almost never happens in a game like this.

If you want to be technical, no underpromote is needed if it is not a game of points or a game where stalemate almost never happens. However, it saves making several NCVs where the only distinction is the single thing pawns may promote to.