Pitched Chess

Pitched Chess

1. The game has two phases - the order phase and the adjudication phase. Both players write down the orders for their pieces in the first phase, which will be revealed for the second, where those will be simultaneously applied and adjudicated accordingly.
2. All pieces both players have on the board are given the option to do their legal moves once each order phase, which the player can choose to do or not.
3. No two pieces can occupy a single tile within the same turn.
   1. A piece cannot move onto a tile still occupied by another friendly piece upon adjudication, which effectively cancels the order.
   2. When a piece is ordered onto a tile where another piece is moving upon adjudication, their movement will bounce, making both pieces stay on their original tiles.
   3. In the case of pieces that can move unlimited distance in a linear direction (such as queens, bishops, and rooks in chess), they will travel every tile their order had prescribed before stopping on the tile before the one where rule 3a or 3b applied.
   4. In the case of pieces that can jump (such as knights in chess), they will capture an enemy piece that was either there or moved there upon adjudication.
4. A piece will always stop upon the tile of an enemy piece it captured.
5. A piece is captured once it stays on a tile where an enemy piece moves upon adjudication.
6. The game can be won by capturing the opposing king, or a player’s surrender.
7. Both players can agree upon a draw.