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I had a question regarding the board used. You state in the rules that the corner squares of the board are twice the size of any other square, but the 'air board' depicted doesn't seem to have this trait. Is this a mistake? Or did the Golden Dawn also use coins at the corners of the board to represent the larger squares?
Completely misses the point (and most of the information). http://enochianchess.com http://enochia.net http://enochian.net Enochian Chess is a Divination game, the important factor being the Ptah placement (not even mentioned). Look up my information on Enochian Chess in David Pritchard's Variant Encyclopedia
From someone that has studied enochian, I perferred his articles approach. 'This is how one plays the 'game.' I've been a member of the yahoo group for enochian chess for about 6 mos. this article is much more frank in how the board and pieces are used. Thank you!
The 'Queen' in this game moves like an 'Alibaba'. It does say there is a special rule about queen capturing another queen and to look in 'rules' section, but i can't seem to see anything. Edit: oh capture might be 'concourse of queens' rule. Anyway, would this be the first appearance of an 'Alibaba' in a game? Anyone know of an earlier game with the 'Alibaba', or, any old game it plays in?
'My board merely gives the king the elbow room that a personage of his rank is due.' Not only is this extra corner square confusing, but in the Golden Dawn game Osiris starts the game standing off the board completely which indicates his status representing Spirit rather than a terrestrial element, so the extra square is completely unnecessary. He is transferred onto the corner square when moving, or when the piece in the corner square vacates, or when checked (both pieces on the square come under attack incidentally). Once either the King or sharing piece moves off the corner square they can never again share the same space. Regarding any 'non-divination' non-magickal rules, these actually exist historically in the Alpha Omega GD instructions and are called the 'Lesser Battle Formulae' so I can see little point inventing a new version of them? http://www.lulu.com/shop/steve-nichols/enochian-chess-book-three-alpha-et-omega/ebook/product-18597021.html Steve-Nichols.com
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