Short Rook Chess

Chess variant


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Chess variant where one of the rooks on each side is replaced by a fairy chess piece, the short rook, which can move at most four squares at once.

Short rook = Rook ≤ 4

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

Similar variant
Inventor

The piece: Ralph Betza, 1979[wiki]; this particular chess variant: Uray M. János, 2013

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