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Stop talking. Mute the call, don't look at each other's screen, and play your own board to the end. Then call each other back.
Call your friend, to talk through your respective experiences. Ask them: What was it like playing with those strange pieces? Once they answer click this button to continue.
Part of the fun of the game is to figure this out for yourself. But if you need it, here are some hints about each piece:
Their knights seem to move like bishops. Recall that in this game bishops are short ranged and jumpy.
Their bishops seem to move like knights.
Their rooks are actually behaving completely normally (that is, for Escher Chess). Short-ranged and jumpy.
While their pawns are moving forward normally, they do not seem to capture normally. Concretely, they seem to be attacking forward and two spaces to either side instead of just one. That would also help explain their strange pawn structure...
Their king moves forward and backwards normally, but whenever it moves sideways (or diagonally) its horizontal movement is doubled. This makes it quite a puzzle how to get a checkmate...
Part of the fun of the game is to figure this out for yourself. But if you need it, here are some hints about each piece:
Their knights seem to move like bishops. Recall that in this game bishops are short ranged and jumpy.
Their bishops seem to move like knights.
Their rooks are actually behaving completely normally (that is, for Escher Chess). Short-ranged and jumpy.
Their queen still slides like a rook, but her diagonal moves have gone strange: she seems to leap like a knight instead. A rook combined with a knight is a piece chess players have a name for — the empress.
While their pawns are moving forward normally, they do not seem to capture normally. Concretely, they seem to be attacking forward and three spaces to either side instead of just one. That would also help explain their strange pawn structure...
Their king moves forward and backwards normally, but whenever it moves sideways (or diagonally) its horizontal movement is tripled. This makes it quite a puzzle how to get a checkmate...
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