Bulldog with Witch: HorusTheThird vs. JohnHS

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This is a game of Bulldog with Witch.

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.

HorusTheThird plays white.  Good luck!

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f4

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1. ... Nd6null

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h3

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f5

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Wd3

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3. ... Wg6

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Qg3. The guard is unique as the only piece that can't be helped to develop by the witch.

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Besides king and knight.  grin.png c6

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Wf2. The king is never "developed" and the knight often gets in the way of other pieces, and the witch helps the pieces get out of the way to castle anyways.

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Yes, but knights do get developed.  Also, it doesn't particularly help pawns.

5. ... Ba5

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Bh5 why the selection of pieces?

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Accidental. Bxd2

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Bxg6

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What are those things on wheels?
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"Siege Towers," or bulldogs. And try not to post in my threads too much, please. This goes to everyone.

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Time overwarning

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Is that a warning on time?

If so, I think I lost.

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Yeah, it was. Sorry for the late reply. I put time"overwarning" because I should have posted it days before.

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OK, gg.