Bushka Tutor | About Basic Tactics Strategy Games Problems Read Me Rules | 1 Movement options 2 Piece movement 3 Phalanx movement 5 Phalanx capture 2 6 Piece capture 1 7 Piece capture 2 8 Three-fold 9 Notation |
Capture is compulsory. In Bushka all capture is by approach.
There are two distinct ways to do this:
If the player to move cannot make a phalanx-capture, he must look for a piece-capture.
If he can make exactly one, he must do so.
If he can make more than one, he must choose the capture that brings the
maximum number of captured pieces. A king counts as one piece.
If there's more than one way to meet this criterion, the player is free to choose.
A phalanx makes only one movement in a turn. In a capture, this movement may be forward or backward. If the square in front of a phalanx is vacant and the square beyond is occupied by an opponent's piece, the phalanx captures by approaching one square, 'touching' the piece with its head.
Diagram 4 Diagram 4 shows an excerpt from Game 3 of a match between Anneke Treep and Christian Freeling. We're at move 11 of a combination white initiated with his eighth move. After gf4 black has no other option than to capture with the two-men phalanx on the 4-line: cxe4. White next captures the 6-men phalanx on the e-line with e1x3. In the actual game black, Anneke in this case, resigned.
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