Paulovits's game

Paulovits's game is a chess variant played on a 10 by 10 board, designed by Istvan Paulovits around 1890. It was described in the book Dames de Paulovits and later in the Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, published in 2007. It differs from western chess in that two extra ranks are placed between the opposing armies and two extra files are inserted between the queen's bishop and the queen. The new files hold two additional pieces, a pasha and a general, each with a pawn in front of it, and both are worth about as much as a rook. The pasha jumps one or two squares in any of the eight orthogonal and diagonal directions, so it resembles a very short queen that can leap over other pieces. The general combines the moves of the mann and the camel, jumping to any of the eight adjacent squares or to the opposite corner of a 2 by 4 rectangle. Pawns may make an initial three-step move, and a king castles by moving two squares king-side or four squares queen-side.