Bulldog Chess with Witch (HorribleTomato vs. CM thegreatauk)

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This is a game of bulldog with witch between HorribleTomato (White) and CM thegreatauk (Black).

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

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Witch (W) - The witch is transparent to friendly pieces, and she also makes all adjacent pieces (friend and foe) transparent to friendly pieces (but pieces are not transparent for the witch). The witch does not capture other pieces, but she can be captured. Although pieces are not transparent to the witch, she is very agile; she combines the movement of queen, knight, and can jump orthogonally and diagonally two squares. Transparency of a piece means that other pieces can move, attack, and capture right through the piece.

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Board Setup:

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Note the position of Black's king and queen are switched compared to classical chess. This is so the guard and witch 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 witch and pieces made transparent by the witch.

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

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

I play black.  Good luck!

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I will "try" (emphasize that) to do the board updating but maybe someone else will have to do it.

You can be white.

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d4

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OK I can't wrap my head around how to update the board. Could you or maybe someone else do it please?

for now my move is f5.

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I think it's a C and P job, but Wd2

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OK I will ask in the 'Looking for opponent's/Games' forum for someone to do it.

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 Interesting mechanics for the witch. Might end up causing some rule disputes, but generally a good idea. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

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tim_supermonkey wrote:

 Interesting mechanics for the witch. Might end up causing some rule disputes, but generally a good idea. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

This variant has been played at least 30 times.

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I can update the diagrams, give me some time pls

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I can manage to do this appr. once a day.

 

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Watching. gl both.

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Kasparov vs. Deep Blue.

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i want to play bulldog chess

 

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You'll do it evert?  Thanks.  There are so many people I want to play, but I don't want to have more than three games ongoing.  I'm playing former WC @Junebug444 already, I want to play @thegreatauk to size him up as a challenger for WC @Martin0, and I also want to play a rematch with @CaptainTugwash, and would also like to play @evert823 and @horrible tomato.  Too many games!  Actually, if I beat Junebug, I will be playing Martin0 for the World Bulldog Championship.

So many things to do, so little time.  This variant is awesome.

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Thanks a lot @evert823

g6

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unc07, you can find an opponent here: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/looking-for-opponents-games?newCommentCount=1&page=33#first_new_comment

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johnhs can you give me the link

 

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You could copy and paste it, but here you go.

Looking for Opponents/Games? thread

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Diagram after Black's move g6:

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