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