Determine the Endgame
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Choose an epaulette mate
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Challenge information
Narrow, 6 (50% base) || 2 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 3 - high-risk (20%) || 4 - high-risk (30%) || 5 - tough (40%) || 6 - very chancy (50%) || 7 - chancy (60%) || 8 - modest (70%) || 9 - very modest (80%) || 10 - low-risk (90%) || 11 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Difficult to arrange
- You've gained 1 x Epaulette Mate
- The game begins again. (Resets to 0)
- A Player of Chess is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5 + )
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- You've gained 1 x Memento of Silence
- You've gained ((see table) × Distance Ahead) x Well-Placed Pawn
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance ahead' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance behind' Quality has gone!
A Player of Chess 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 multiplier 0.237 0.379 0.596 0.912 1.345 1.888 2.5 3.112 3.655 4.088 4.404 4.621 4.763 4.853 4.91 4.945 4.967 4.98 4.988 Failure
Wait, wait
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
- The game begins again. (Resets to 0)
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- A Player of Chess is increasing… (+2 CP, up to level 5 + )
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance ahead' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance behind' Quality has gone!
- You've gained 160 x Well-Placed Pawn
Choose a queen mate
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Challenge information
Narrow, 4 (50% base) || 0 - almost impossible (10%) || 1 - high-risk (20%) || 2 - high-risk (30%) || 3 - tough (40%) || 4 - very chancy (50%) || 5 - chancy (60%) || 6 - modest (70%) || 7 - very modest (80%) || 8 - low-risk (90%) || 9 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Stand in for the queen
- You've gained 1 x Queen Mate
- The game begins again. (Resets to 0)
- A Player of Chess is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5 + )
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance ahead' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance behind' Quality has gone!
- You've gained 1 x Memento of Silence
- You've gained ((see table) × Distance Ahead) x Well-Placed Pawn
A Player of Chess 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 multiplier 0.237 0.379 0.596 0.912 1.345 1.888 2.5 3.112 3.655 4.088 4.404 4.621 4.763 4.853 4.91 4.945 4.967 4.98 4.988 Failure
Stand in for the queen
- The game begins again. (Resets to 0)
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
- A Player of Chess is increasing… (+2 CP, up to level 5 + )
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- You are not ahead of your opponent at all. (Resets to 0)
- You are not behind your opponent at all. (Resets to 0)
- You've gained 160 x Well-Placed Pawn
Offer a draw
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Locked with 2
Success
An Impasse
- The game begins again. (Resets to 0)
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance ahead' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance behind' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- You've gained 1 x Threefold Repetition
- You've gained 1 x Memento of Silence
- You've gained (see table) x Well-Placed Pawn
^A Player of Chess 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 79 82 86 91 99 109 120 131 141 149 154 158 161 162 163 164 164 165 165
Stalemate
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Success
Call the game a draw
- The game begins again. (Resets to 0)
- You've gained 1 x Stalemate
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance ahead' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance behind' Quality has gone!
- You've lost 2 x Threefold Repetition
- You've gained 1 x Vital Intelligence
Force a Stalemate
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Success
Call the game a draw
- The game begins again. (Removes all )
- You've gained 1 x Stalemate
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance ahead' Quality has gone!
- You've lost 360 x Well-Placed Pawn
Resign
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Success
Fall sideways
- The game begins again. (Removes all )
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- You are not behind of your opponent at all. (Removes all )
Increase
Recognise new possibilities in the depth of your loss
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Locked with
Success
The next game will be better
- Your maximum A Player of Chess is now 6. (Sets to 1)
- The game begins again. (Resets to 0)
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- You are not behind your opponent at all any more. (Resets to 0)
- You are not ahead of your opponent at all. (Resets to 0)
Recognise new possibilities in the height of your win
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Locked with 7
Success
Heady pleasures
- The game begins again. (Resets to 0)
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- Your maximum A Player of Chess is now 7. (Sets to 2)
- You are not ahead of your opponent at all. (Resets to 0)
- You are not behind your opponent at all. (Resets to 0)
Tweak
Betray! Destroy! Take white down from the inside!
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Locked with 5
Success
Chaos and Flames
- You've gained 3 x Favours: Revolutionaries (up to 7)
- Advancing the Liberation of Night: is increasing… (+50 CP, up to level 50)
- Steadfast is dropping… (-5 CP)
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- You are now playing with black pieces. (Sets Colour at the Chessboard to 2 - Black)
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance ahead' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance behind' Quality has gone!
Betray! Destroy! Take black down from the inside!
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Locked with
Success
Chaos and flames
- The game begins again. (Removes all )
- Advancing the Liberation of Night: is dropping… (-45 CP)
- Steadfast is dropping… (-5 CP)
- Your 'Strategic Weaknesses' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Positional Advantages' Quality has gone!
- You are now playing with white pieces. (Sets Colour at the Chessboard to 3 - White)
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance ahead' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Position on the Board: Distance behind' Quality has gone!
- You've gained 3 x Favours: The Great Game (up to 7)