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Horde Guide

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A guide for NEW Horde-players

Basic ideas :

The "weird" thing about this variant is that the white site, the Horde, starts with 36 Pawns and without a king or any pieces. Black starts with the orthodox chess starting position.
The objective is easy: Destroy the Horde as black and checkmate the black king as white.

White has four good starting moves a5/d5/e5/h5. Other opening moves lead to material losses.

https://lichess.org/study/UXvs3qeY/De1MShwI

Opening idaes :

https://lichess.org/study/jl9rLN2V

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