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{{Infobox_Game|
subject_name=Barsoomian Jetan|
designer=
image_link=[[Image:Argosy_all_story_wee1.jpg|thumb|200px|1922 original publication of ''Chessmen of Mars'']]|
description=Fantasy chess on Barsoom (Mars)|
min_players=
max_players=2|
stashes=4|
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strategy=High|
random_chance=None|
game_mechanics=Chess, Angular movement|
theme=Mars|
footnotes=|
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The standard (terrestrial) reference for Jetan is ''The Chessmen of Mars'' (1922): the original pulp serial and most book reprints include an appendix outlining the rules.
Designed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and made pyramidal by [[User:Carthoris|Carthoris Pyramidos]].
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=== Panthans ===
Eight (8) per side. Use four black and four blue icehouse pawns (1-pip pieces). The colors are a distinction without a difference in this particular case.
* The Panthan piece as described by Burroughs has a single feather (symbol: f). It moves a single space straight or diagonally forward or to the side. Unlike all other pieces, it may not retreat. Unlike a pawn in modern chess, it is not promoted when it reaches the farthest rank of the board. The effect of this is that in
=== Thoats ===
Two (2) per side. Use black icehouse queens (3-pip pieces).
* The Barsoomian Thoat piece shows a mounted warrior with two feathers (symbol: ffR). It moves one space orthogonally and one space diagonally in any direction. Unlike most Jetan pieces, it may jump over intervening pieces, although in some rule interpretations, the Thoat does not jump.
=== Warriors ===
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=== Fliers ===
Two (2) per side. Use a blue drone on top of a black queen.
* A Flier glyph shows a three-bladed propellor (symbol: Y). It moves up to three spaces diagonally, with cornering permitted
=== Chief ===
One (1) per side. Use a blue pawn on top of a black drone on top of a blue queen.
* A Barsoomian Chief piece shows a crown with ten jewels (symbol: W). He moves up to three spaces, diagonally or orthogonally or a combination of both, with cornering permitted.
=== Princess ===
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== External Links ==
* [
* [http://www.paulburgess.org/jetan.html Paul Burgess article] and digital Jetan
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[[Category:Martian theme]]
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