About Jetan
Jetan, or Martian Chess, is a two-player abstract game played on a 10-by-10 board. Each side has a set of twenty pieces of varying types, with each type having its own set of movement options. &#...Read More
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Wild chess-like game, but the pieces seem a bit over-powered. Probably best played as a gambling game, as Burroughs intended. There is a very nice discussion of the game spanning several issues of Abstract Games Magazine.
Played a few times years back. Not a bad game, but not worth putting a set together and teaching someone else how to play.
I use Looney Pyramids for Jetan pieces, and I have a variant with a hexagonal board from chess wedges. Haven't played since before I started logging here.
An interesting Chess variant, made more interesting by the fact that it was created as a plot device for Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Chessmen of Mars."
made a set
This is a very solid chess-like abstract drawn from a very particular side of science fiction literary heritage. Although the Princess's teleportation move is contrived (and whether it's been employed is information not directly visible), and the Chieftain-capture rule is best employed as a movement prohibition instead of a game-ender, everything else is rock-solid. Distance limitations bring a genuine flavor of battlefield support, and the pieces' often-twisting paths are a reminder of both versatility and battlefield chaos.
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