#3139: Chess Variant
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[A chessboard is shown with the white pieces at the bottom of the screen. The pieces are illustrated in the basic design of standard computer chess. The chessboard is divided into 16 2x2 sliding squares with the e3-f4 square currently being moved to the g3-h4 spot. Otherwise the opening is a standard Scotch Opening.]
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Sliding number puzzle chess
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text: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.