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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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