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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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[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I would say you can only move a tile if you have a piece on it as well.