Rules
Before the game players choose their armies in a certain way, predefined by tournament rules. This can be done either randomly or secretly by both players. Each player has a choice of 4 armies: the Fabulous FIDEs, where all pieces move as in standard chess, Colorbound Clobberers, Nutty Knights or Remarkable Rookies army.
All armies are designed to be equal in strength, but have significantly different properties. kings and pawns move the same as in chess for all armies. Pawns can only promote to pieces available in either player's army at the start. The castling is done as in standard chess with exception of the case when the rook replacement is a colorbound, like in colorbound clobberers army. In the latter case the king when castling long moves to b1 and the rook replacement to c1. This is so colorbound pieces don't change square color.
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Many pieces in the following armies are combination of standard chess pieces and 4 fairy pieces: ferz, alfil, wazir and dabbaba (see their movement diagrams above). The game can be played with standard chess pieces and the following move diagrams use standard pieces as well (except queens).
Read more about this topic: Chess With Different Armies
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