Berolina chess Berolina chess Berolina chess is a chess variant using a popular fairy chess piece called the Berolina pawn (also known as "Berlin pawn" or "Anti-pawn"). The Berolina pawn was invented by Edmund Nebermann in 1926 and has found frequent use in chess problems. Berolina chess follows the same rules as standard chess, including castling, except that all eight pawns are replaced by Berolina pawns. The Berolina pawn moves, without capturing, one square diagonally forward. It captures one square straight forward. (So, it is the converse of a standard chess pawn, which moves straight forward and captures diagonally forward.) Like a
Shatra (game) Shatra (game) Shatra is a chess-like game which was played in the Altai region. It can be seen as a mixture between chess and draughts. Shatra is played on board of 62 tiles which are divided into 3 areas: The central area of 7x6 tiles and two 3x3 tiles (fortresses), which are connected via 1 tile (temdek) to the central board.The central area is divided horizontally by a ditch. Each player has 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops and 11 pawns (shatras). The pieces move as in chess. The pieces placed in the fortress are called reserves and