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{{Infobox_Game|
subject_name=Barsoomian Jetan|
designer=Designed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and made pyramidal by [[User:Carthoris|Carthoris Pyramidos]]|
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|
sets=
other_equip=10x10 grid board|
setup_time=2 minutes |
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theme=Mars|
footnotes=|
release_year=2012|
game_status=Complete|
BGG_Link=[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16596/jetan Jetan]|}}
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'''Jetan''' is the chess-like game played on Barsoom (i.e. [[Mars]]) in the John Carter adventures written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This has historically led to some confusion with [[Martian Chess]], which it is not. However, it is possible to play Jetan with pyramid pieces, and since Looney Pyramids are ''far'' more common than "proper" Jetan pieces, it might be that players could use the same pieces to become proficient in '''both''' kinds of "Martian Chess."
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.
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== Rules ==
Play alternates as in modern chess, with characterstic moves for each piece type, and captures made by moving into the space of the captured piece which is then removed. Multiple pieces may not share a space, except for the final move (see below).
Game resolution is as follows:
* '''Victory''' -- One Chief captures the opposing Chief, OR
* '''Victory''' -- Any piece
* '''Draw''' -- Play continues for more than five moves by each player after both have been reduced to three or fewer pieces remaining, OR
* '''Draw''' -- Either Chief is captured by a piece other than a Chief.
Burroughs never specified whether a stalemate is a win or a draw. Cases have been made for both positions, but stalemate in jetan is very rare anyway.
Practical experience suggests that Jetan is more playable if the second draw condition is abandoned, and the game is allowed to continue after the capture of the Chief by a non-Chief piece.▼
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== Pyramid Pieces for Jetan ==
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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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