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Russian Besiege Checkers

To play Russian Besiege Checkers we will need two standard 8x8 chessboards.

Let's connect these two boards vertically.

Now we have an 8x16 board for playing Russian Besiege Checkers.

All rules except direction of pieces moves and promotions are just as in Russian Checkers.

White pieces at the first, second and third row move upwards, promote when they come at the 8th row.

White pieces at the 16th, 15th and 14th row move downwards, promote when they come at the 9th row.

Black pieces at the 8th, 7th and 6th row move downwards, promote when they come at the 1st row.

Black pieces at the 9th, 10th and 11th row move upwards, promote when they come at the 16th row.

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This variant could work better under rules where a simple draughtsman can't capture backwards (Spanish, Czech, Tanzanian, Thai, South-German etc.). It would give chances to apply some positional sacrifices for getting early king with an idea of attacking and capturing opponent draughtsmen from squares where a king can't be captured backwards.

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Of course, any rules can be applied. In this case, the name of this variant may be different, for example, Brazilian Besiege Checkers, Spanish Besiege Checkers, etc.

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