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Even bigger ! This is a chess variant with 20 different pieces on a 14 x 14 board: such a board was used by some Maharajahs in old India. There are 196 cases and 48 pieces per side which gives almost the same density than for Orthodox Chess. In Gigachess one will find again all 13 kinds of pieces encountered in Shako , Tamerlane, Metamachy. Newcomers are the Rhinoceros, the giraffe, the Machine (orthogonal dual of the Elephant), the Bow (diagonal dual of the Cannon), the Amazon (Queen+Knight), the Marshall (Rook+Knight) and the Cardinal (Bishop+Knight) so often used in chess variants, and the Bull, a terrific leaper combining the powers of Knight, Camel and more.