Variants and Triple Check
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In chess with variant rules or fairy pieces, other ways of delivering a double check may be possible. Triple, quadruple and even quintuple checks may also be possible, for example in the position shown, after Black plays 1...d5, White plays 2.exd6 e.p. quintuple check (the moa is a non-leaping knight which first takes a diagonal step, then an orthogonal one). After the en passant capture, both moas, the rook, the grasshopper and the bishop check the black king.
In xiangqi, a Chinese version of chess, triple check and even quadruple check is possible even without using fairy chess pieces, as in the following examples:
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