Bulldog Chess with Witch (josephyossi vs. HorusTheThird)

This is game-4 of the 2018 Super-dog 16-player tournament, a game of bulldog with witch between josephyossi (White) and HorusTheThird (Black).

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

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.

Board Setup:

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.

josephyossi plays White. Good luck to both players!

E4

It has been I think a day since hourus has not moved.

Three days per move are actually allowed. I've been playing HorusTheThird in Waterloo, and he usually plays a move each day, but sometimes skips a day or two (and so do I). It's gone for more than 50 moves so he's reliable. But after 3 days, if still no move, you can issue a warning, and if no move in one more day then you would get the win. Here's the board for now.

Waterloo??

BIIIG chess variant(big board tons of pieces) by Ivan K.

e5

Bg4

Also, what if the King is castling through the squares that are occupied by the transparent (friendly or enemy) pieces? Does these pieces "shield" the square from being attacked? I.e. King normally can't go through empty attacked square, but what if there's (transparent for him) a piece on this square? Does it allow for castling then?

edit: Damn, how much I hate this page disfunctionalities... instead of adding a new post, it overwritten my whole previous post... stupid chess.com, they should fix their bugged website already.... Now I have to write a page long comment again......

Or I will try to edit this post later and add the questions again..

King can castle through transparent pieces, but it's not said whether these can be the squares that would be otherwise attacked or not. If yes, and the pieces are "shielding" the squares from being attacked, then what about empty squares? Ar they also "transparent"? Can the King castle through transparent squares that would be being attacked otherwise?

Also, it's not explained, but do transparency forbid multiple pieces to be placed on the same square? It's said that you can move, attack and capture through the transparent squares, but if the movement requires more than one turn (King, Pawn and Guard), then does it mean that there's no profit for them from transparency at all?

Also, question about this:

• pieces are not transparent for the witch

Does it affect only the Witch that makes the pieces transparent, i.e. if we have two (or more) Witches, can the other one go through transparent pieces? Don't you think that non-transparency should affect only the Witch that is making the piece transparent, so the other one should be able to go through, i.e. the second Witch should be treated as any other normal piece and be able to go through the piece that was made transparent by your first Witch?

And if yes, then what happens, if we have more than one Witch adjacent to a given piece? If both of them are making a piece transparent, are both of them unable to go through it? Or maybe both of them will be able to go through?

Edit: Can transparent pieces be attacked? Can we capture en passant enemy's pawn, which was made transparent by our own Witch?

Please update Vicaka

Questions by Scarlet_Evans:

Q. I assume that "transparency" doesn't allow for multiple pieces to be placed at the very same square?
A. Same as in normal chess, multiple pieces cannot be on the same square.

Q. can transparent enemy pieces be captured? Can King be checkmated, if the checking pieces are transparent?
A. Yes, transparent pieces can be captured (and the king placed in check and checkmated).

Q. King can't go through attacked squares while castling, but what if these are the squares adjacent to the Witch? Could castling be allowed then?
A. Same as in normal chess, castling is not allowed if the king is attacked while castling, even if the attack happens through a transparent piece.

Board update:

1.e4...e5
2.Bg4

2nd day and he hasnt replyed,

Last comment was 1 day ago.  Once comment #7 says 2 days, the mod or the other player should give a time warning.  He has one day after that warning to move, and then he flags.

yep.

Sorry, it actually has to be two days from your last moves (comment #9)

well, it is 2 days for me

OK, then you can issue a warning to horus on this page.  After you make that warning, he has until this time tomorrow to move.

Nd6