xodul is a tactical and strategy game, which is a variant of chess...
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>> the rules of xodul follow the rules of international chess, except in the movement of the additional pieces and the promotion of pawns [and that there is neither castle nor en passant].
initial setup
the initial setup of the xodul game is as indicated in the following figure:
- the bottom pieces from left to right are: the car, the knight, the bishop, the queen, the king, the wizard, the guard, the lance, and the cannon. The game is played in a board with 8x9 lines & columns.
the pieces
in the xodul…
there are some pieces equal in name and movement to the international chess [the knight, the bishop, the queen and the king];
there are two pieces equal in name and movement to those of chinese chess /xiang-qi [the car and the cannon; note that the movement of the car is equal to the movement of the rook piece of international chess];
there are two pieces with repeated names of chinese /xiang-qi chess and japanese chess /shogi, but with original movements [the guard and the lance, respectively];
there is a totally original piece [the wizard];
and finally, there are the pawns, whose normal movement is the same as they have in international chess, but whose promotion in this game is made accordingly to original rules.
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the car moves along lines or columns, the desired number of squares. |
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the knight moves in the form of the capital letter “L”, jumping over the pieces with its movement, if the player wants that. |
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the bishop moves along diagonal directions, the desired number of squares. |
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the queen moves along lines, columns or diagonals, any number of squares. |
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the king moves one square in any direction. |
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wizard has two options: |
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guard has two options: |
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lance has two types of movement: |
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the cannon has a normal movement equal to the car's movement; however, when it is going to make a capture it must jump over one, and only one, other piece of any colour. |
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the pawn's normal movement is to move one square to the front if that square is empty; in its first move, it has the option of moving two squares to the front; in another hand, its capture movement is to move one square in diagonal to the front. |
promotion
of pawns
at any phase of the game, instead of doing a normal move, the player can promote any of its pawns by replacing it with a captured piece (along the game, that can be done the number of times the player wants, while having pawns);
if a pawn reaches the last line it is converted into a “general”, which can move one square to the front or one square in any diagonal.
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Xodul game logo. |
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Photograph of the 1st xodul set, this still in 2d, with cardboard bases and transparent plastics in the shape of each piece; the board is made of canvas. |
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Limited edition in 2d with very few manufactured examplars, due to the time-consuming manual labor involved; this set has cut and laminated k-line pieces; the board is made of canvas. |
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Set engraved with laser relief, with vector drawings elaborated on a computer in vector format; after laser engraving and manual cut of each piece in a carpentry shop, the pieces were hand painted front and back and varnished. |
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This is my favorite board! it was the 1st board made with 3d printing technology, with the help of the american corner group UA-portugal; these parts were printed in the UA, with a BEETHEFIRST printer; it also has rubber washers for the color changing system of the parts. |
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This is a board printed in the ogami store in coimbra-PT, the 1st "graphic store" that I selected to do the service of printing my models; this was discontinued because it is too expensive. |
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Hi! now, after I started working at a 3d printer company, i got a partnership with my company and printed a few copies of my 3d game with white PLA material; I sold some copies to buyers on e-bay, but now this is out-of-stock... |
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Here, the xodul game kept in a box with all the pieces. |
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Another perspective of a set of the xodul game. |
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This is a xodul board, made of canvas that is a flexible material. |
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This *.png file contains the board designed on a computer, which I ask to print in a printer shop with the measures 37.0cm x 33.5cm. |
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Here is an image containing the 3D drawings drawn on a computer, and placed on a platform of a virtual 3D printer with the BEESOFT software. |
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These were the initial drawings generated with opensource image editing software for linux: gimp and inskscape; these drawings were made with *.svg and *.png files; with the printing of these images, the first 2d boards were made, with which we initially played. |
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This *.zip contains the 3d images generated by the edition of the previous 2d models, after its manipulation with an open source software program for linux: blender; these *.blend models were then imported and converted to *.stl files that store each model in 3d, and converted to *.gcode which are files read by 3d machines. |
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Here are images of a set of xodul ads made on ebay. |
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This is the brochure with the rules of xodul, in english. |
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This is the brochure with the rules of xodul, in portuguese. |
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This is a *.pdf document with the rules in english. |
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This is a *.pdf document with the rules in portuguese. |
- this game was invented by Sílvia M.G. Rodrigues, since the academic year 2010/2011 until december 20th, 2017.
Xodul is a tactical and strategy game, which is a variant of chess. This game is inspired on international chess, chinese chess (xiang-qi), and japanese chess (shogi).
In particular, xodul has 10 different pieces from each other: car, knight, bishop, queen, king, wizard, guard, lance, cannon and pawns; moreover, the promotion of pawns can be made accordingly to a different rule: a piece captured by one of the players can return to the game through the promotion of one of the pawns; therefore, the pieces can change their colour.
This game was invented by Sílvia M.G. Rodrigues, since the academic year 2010/2011 until december 20th, 2017.
silviamgr.sissi@gmail.com
(+351) 964334587
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