xkcd #3139: Chess Variant

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The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.

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The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

So even if it does not move, this pawn could get promoted by some future tile-slide... come to think of it, I guess two pawns could get promoted in the same turn via a tile-slide.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    That does seem to be the case, yes. Although I expect your opponent wouldn't let you pull that off so easily.

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