Open with a familiar move – then deviate
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The writings of the old masters have not prepared them for this.
Game Instructions: This will consume your Opening Novelty and give you a single Move in the Great Game. On a success, you will gain four Positional Advantages.
Challenge information
Narrow, 5 (50% base)
- 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 2 - high-risk (20%)
- 3 - high-risk (30%)
- 4 - tough (40%)
- 5 - very chancy (50%)
- 6 - chancy (60%)
- 7 - modest (70%)
- 8 - very modest (80%)
- 9 - low-risk (90%)
- 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
A gambit
They did not expect you to leave that pawn hanging. While they're distracted, you fianchetto your bishop. She reports back on all she sees, from a rooftop in Ankara...
- You've gained 1 x Progress on the Board
- You've gained 4 x Positional Advantages
- You now have ( - ) x Position on the Board: Distance ahead
- You now have ( - x) Position on the Board: Distance behind
- You've lost 1 x Opening Novelty
- You've gained 1 x Moves in the Great Game
Failure
Anti-positional
A flurry of exchanges leave your bishop's pawn isolated in Stuttgart and at risk of going rogue. But what's written on that cable from Buenos Aires...?
- You've gained 1 x Progress on the Board
- You've gained 1 x Positional Advantages
- You now have ( - ) x Position on the Board: Distance ahead
- You now have ( - x) Position on the Board: Distance behind
- You've lost 1 x Opening Novelty
- You've gained 1 x Moves in the Great Game
Categories:
- Pages Without Guide Restrictions
- Colour at the Chessboard
- Progress on the Board
- Opening Novelty
- A Player of Chess Challenge
- Actions
- Progress on the Board Gain
- Positional Advantages Gain
- Position on the Board: Distance ahead Gain
- Position on the Board: Distance behind Gain
- Opening Novelty Loss
- Moves in the Great Game Gain