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Feb 14, 2024·How to play·01:13·0·Watch on YouTube

How to play Shako

Triple S Games

Triple S Games

Watch “How to play Shako,” a how-to-play guide for Shako from Triple S Games on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Triple S Games on YouTube:

Learn the rules to the board game Shako quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules. For a refresher of the original rules of Chess, check out this video: https://youtu.be/iPXcfS0UDlI Buy our Double-Sided Chess Discs and fairy chess pieces here: https://buy.triplesgames.com/DoubleSidedChessDiscs Our 10x10 checkerboard: https://buy.triplesgames.com/10x10ChessBoard Play chess online for free here: https://link.triplesgames.com/Play-Chess-Online (As an chess.com affiliate we earn from qualifying subscriptions) RULES: The rules are the same as regular chess, except for these changes. For a refresher of those rules, check out this video. Layout a 10x10 board. On the 3rd row setup pawns. On the 2nd from left to right setup: Elephant, rook, knight, bishop, Queen, King, Bishop, Knight, Rook, Elephant. On the first row, place canon’s in the corners. Mirror this setup for black. The Cannon moves like a Rook but it does not capture like a rook. Instead, it must jump over exactly 1 piece from either player, then it continues moving in a straight line and captures the first enemy piece it moves into. The cannon may not capture a piece without jumping over another piece nor may it jump over another piece without capturing a piece. The Elephant moves one or two squares diagonally jumping over any piece in its path. Pawns are still allowed their initial double step move option. En passant is allowed like normal. Pawns are allowed to promote to an elephant or cannon. Castling is allowed like normal. The first player to checkmate their opponent, wins.

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Shako

Shako

1999·Jean-Louis Cazaux

2 players
0 min

About Shako, from BoardGameGeek:

Shako which means Chess in Esperanto, is a chess variant played on a 10X10 board. This variant uses all the rules of orthodox chess, and the way the pieces are placed in the opening setup, again in the familiar pattern, allow players to follow practical all the openings used for orthodox chess. The new pieces are taken from Xiangqi (Chinese Chess). Elephants are added on the outside of the rooks. Elephants move one or two squares diagonally. When an elephant moves two squares, it is allowed to jump. the two ranks of pieces are moved up, so sit as they would on an 8X8 board. the rank closest to the player is empty except for two cannons on the outer most squares. Cannons move without taking like rooks, and they move with taking by going in a straight horizontal and vertical line and jumping over exactly one piece: when a cannon takes a piece, there must be exactly one piece between the original and final square of the cannons move - this piece may be of either color. (This is identical to the move of the cannon in Xiangqi.) Other pieces move as normal. Win is by checkmate

Designer

Jean-Louis Cazaux

Categories

Abstract Strategy

Mechanics

Grid Movement
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Shako

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