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Chess variant with fairy chess pieces: the white queen is replaced by a superqueen, which can also make a knight-move, and the white rooks are short rooks, which can move at most four squares at once. Black has the usual set of pieces.

≤ 4

Otherwise the rules of chess apply, with the following differences:

Pawns can promote to any piece which that side had at the beginning of the game (except pawn and king).
Castling works in the same way with short rooks.

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