Bulldog Chess with Spirit (HorribleTomato vs Fly-Eagles-Fly)

Bulldog Chess with Spirit game between HorribleTomato and Fly-Eagles-Fly.

Game rules:
Board: 10 x 8 (see image below).
The pieces:
Guard (G) - Moves and captures like a king.

Spirit (S) - A spirit moves as a knight. It can 'capture' friendly pieces (except knights), which gain the movement of a knight in addition to it's other abilities. A 'possessed' piece can be captured like normal. A spirit which is not possessing anything can only be captured by a possessed piece. It is transparent to friendly pieces.

Board Setup:

Note the position of Black's king and queen are switched compared to classical chess. This is so the guard and spirit are equal distance to each player's king and queen.

Castling:
The rules of castling are similar as in classical chess, however, with the board 10 squares wide, the king travels three squares rather than two. The rook finishes adjacent to the king. All squares between the king and the involved rook must be unoccupied, with the exception of the spirit.

Misc: Pawns play the same as in classical chess. Pawns can promote to queen, rook, bishop, knight in addition to guard and spirit. Promotions are unlimited (not restricted to pieces that have been captured).

Other rules of this game are identical with rules of classical chess.

HorribleTomato plays White. Good luck!

 d4

Quick question: can pawns promote to spirit? I would be inclined to think yes...

Also: Can a spirit jump out of one piece and directly into another? Like if your first move was Sxd2, could your next move be Sxf1?

Oh, and yet another thing: How do we mark if a piece is possessed?

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. Same as normal, but you MAY put a P before it. If you mean board painter to distinguish, you can ask vickalin for Archbishop, Chancellor, and Amazon. Pawns can be the mouse that you and tugwash used for Cat and Mouse Bulldog.

Or maybe... I know how we can make a piece really look possessed. *Devilish grin*

Here's some possessed pawns next to regular pawns

1. d4 d5

Qd2

2. Qd2 Ng6

Sxd2!

Your paints are cool, can't wait to see them!

давайте сыграем в шахматы Фишера, давно не играл, хочу поиграть!?

3. Sxd2 Sh6

Oh, and can spirits capture enemy pieces when not possessing? I don't remember clarifying that.

No, they can't. Only friendly.

Okay, didn't think so.

c4

An interesting spirit mechanism is changing bishop colors...

You know, we could flip the witch horizontally to make it a different piece, so as not to be confusing. If it's okay with you, I'm going to start doing that from here on out.