Jetan
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Jetan, also known as Martian chess, is a chess variant first published in 1922. It was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs as a game played on Barsoom, his fictional version of Mars. The game was introduced in The Chessmen of Mars, the fifth book in the Barsoom series. Its rules are described in Chapter 2 and in the Appendix of the book, with an actual game partly described in Chapter 17.
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- Instance of
- chess variant
- Sport
- chess
- Image
- Jetan Board.svg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- described by source
- The Chessmen of Mars
- Commons category
- Jetan
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Article · Español
El Jetan o Ajedrez Marciano es una variación del ajedrez ingeniada por Edgar Rice Burroughs, que al igual que el ajedrez es un juego de estrategia para dos contrincantes, cada uno con veinte fichas para cada bando, a diferencia de las dieciséis del ajedrez. La descripción del juego se explica en un corto apéndice de la novela , y en el segundo capítulo se narra una partida en Barsoom, el Marte ficticio de Burroughs
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