List such gamesTry the rulesChess variants with fairy chess pieces

Chess variant on a 10x8 board with fairy chess piece: two centaurs on each side. It combines the movement powers of the knight and the king (but does not inherit any special properties of king, like the check-rule).

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Otherwise the rules of chess apply, with the following differences:

• Pawns can promote to centaur too.
• Castling: the king moves three squares, and the rook moves two or three squares, depending on the side.

Inventor

Sidney LeVasseur, 1998^[ChV.com]

External link

• ChessVariants.com: Royal court