Petty Chess

I downloaded a freeware program called Maniac recently. One of it's features is a variant called Petty Chess. It is played on a small board with 5 files and 6 ranks:

Q K B N R
P P P P P
(empty rank)
(empty rank)
P P P P P
Q K B N R

where the bold letters are Black pieces and the normal letters are White.
No two-square initial pawn advance option, and consequently no capture e.p., of course. No castling. Everything else as normal: pawn promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate, etc. etc.
Anyone interested in playing by PM or by in-game message during a normal game?

Originally posted by huntingbear
I downloaded a freeware program called Maniac recently. One of it's features is a variant called Petty Chess. It is played on a small board with 5 files and 6 ranks:

[b]Q K B N R
P P P P P
(empty rank)
(empty rank)
P P P P P
Q K B N R

where the bold letters are Black pieces and the normal letters are White.
No two-square initial p ...[text shortened]... emate, etc. etc.
Anyone interested in playing by PM or by in-game message during a normal game?[/b]

Originally posted by Phlabibit
can you give us a link to maniac so we can find this freeware? I don't want to have to cut my board down to 30 squares!

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