The idea of this variant is to make a new game without directly disposing the large heritage of the classical game. All rules of orthodox chess are kept, and the way the pieces are placed in the opening setup allow players to follow practical all the openings used for usual chess.
Elephants move one or two squares diagonally.
When an elephant moves two squares, it is allowed to jump, i.e., the intervening square does not have to be empty. Pawns promote on the tenth row of the board to Queen, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Elephant, or Cannon, to the owning players choice. Other rules are as in usual chess . Set of bitmaps of the pieces that are used in Shako . By Jean-Louis Cazaux.