| No.371 Geoff Foster (Australia) |
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No.371 – Geoff Foster – An aristocratic octet with three nice solutions! (JV)
Definitions:
Locust (L): moves on Q-lines but only by capturing an enemy unit, arriving on the square immediately beyond that unit, which must be vacant.
Rook-Locust (LR): Moves like Locust, but on Rook-lines only.
Bishop-Locust (LB): Moves like Locust, but on Bishop-lines only.
Take & Make: Having captured, a unit must immediately, as part of its move, play a non-capturing move in imitation of the captured unit from the capture-square. If no such move is available, the capture is illegal. Promotion by capture occurs only when a pawn arrives on the promotion rank as the result of a take&make move. Checks are as in normal chess: after the notional capture of the checked K, the checking unit does not move away from the K’s square.
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No.371 Geoff Foster
Australia
original-07.09.2013
 h#2 3 solutions (3+3+2n)
Take & Make Rook-Locust e7 Bishop-Locust c2 Solution: (click to show/hide)
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The third solution is unique, as it uses the property of Locust in Take & Make condition. In this fairy condition Locusts are immune from capture. One could say that this a drawback or an interesting feature. Depends on personal view.