Pirate Chess 2003:  Instructions                                      
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Play:  Two players alternate turns attacking (trading locations) with pieces on the board.  Player one controls the upper half of the board and attacks pieces with a lesser point value.  Alternately, player two controls the lower half of the board and attacks pieces of greater point value. 

Pieces:  Four types of pieces, one instance for each point value from 1, 2, ..., 8, A.  Where A is considered the highest rank except when attacking/attacked by a 1.  Pieces can be face-down, in-which-case their identity and rank is not known until the piece is turned over by moving it to either the topmost or bottommost row.

Movement:  Movement is accomplished by attacking pieces.  As stated previously, player one attacks lesser pieces and player 2 attacks greater pieces.  Face-down pieces cannot attack, they can only be attacked.  Each type of piece has a movement pattern:

Queen:  Attacks similar to a queen in chess.  It can attack from unlimited distance up, down, left, right, or diagonally, except a queen cannot attack another queen, attack past another queen, or attack a face-down piece.

Bishop:  Attacks similar to a bishop in chess.  It can attack from unlimited distance diagonally, except a bishop cannot cross over or attack another face-up bishop.                       

Rook:  Attacks similar to a rook in chess.  It can attack from unlimited distance vertically and horizontally, except a rook cannot cross over or attack another face-up rook.        

Knight:  (Donkey) Attacks similar to a knight in chess.  It attacks in a L shaped pattern.  A knight cannot attack another face-up knight.

 

Winning:  A player wins by either forming a flush (all pieces of the same type on the topmost or bottommost row for player on and two respectively) or a straight (all ranks of pieces on the topmost or bottommost row increasing or decreasing by one point with the end of the row wrapping to the front of the row).



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