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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 a long gametheory, surviving Panthans "patrol" the far rank after fully penetrating the opposite side, but in actual play this practically never happens.
 
=== Thoats ===
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