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Giraffe chess is played with 68 squares
- Someone 6y agoFor those wondering: the extra squares are D0, E0, D9 and E9. All are occupied by giraffes at start of play (https://www.giraffechess.com/giraffe-chess/ https://www.giraffechess.com/giraffe-chess/). Giraffes are (1,3) leapers (that’s in conflict with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe_(chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe_(chess), where that’s called a camel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(chess) ) Pawn promotion on ranks 1 and 8 can’t be to a giraffe; to have that option, promotion has to happen on row 0 or 9. Draws are rare (I don’t think they’re completely avoided. End games with just two kings still could be a draw) because a king move onto one of the opponent’s extra squares wins, because what formerly was a stalemate now is a loss for the player to move, and because there’s a 50 move rule which says a piece must be captured at least every 50th move.