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xkcd #3139: Chess Variant

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The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3139/

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 48 points 6 days ago

I bet someone will have a playable version up within less than 24 hours.