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It was called bughouse chess. A variant of chess with unusual rules, where you played with two chessboards side by side.
That was what Saki was gonna play with the Kakuremino sisters on that day, after school. In other words, bughouse chess was the Stage 3 quest in this game by Anshin'in-san, not to mention, she was gonna have to take on both sisters at the same time on my own, so the rules had changed even further from normal bughouse chess.
It was normally a game you played with four people, but she was gonna play it two-on-one. The rules were a lot simpler compared to shogi, and if sge had to say it then chess was much easier to approach, but if there was one big difference between shogi and chess, it would be whether or not you could use the pieces you captured on your own side.
First off, to explain the rules of normal bughouse chess, there are two chessboards. Team A and Team B each have a set of black pieces and a set of white pieces, and they face off using both boards at once.
It's a one-on-one times two, basically. And this is the crux of the rules, when a player captures an enemy piece on one board, that player's ally can then use that piece on the other board.
Well, if there's one small salvation, it's that she's not necessarily all that bad at these kinds of strategy games myself. She didn't often play with others because she didn't want to show the cards in her hand, but on this chessboard called Suisou Academy, the two years she spent moving around these human pieces weren't just for show.
Plus, while the rules were pretty unique, the concept of bughouse chess itself was something sge happened to already know about. So she'd been pretending to freak out while the Kakuremino sisters proudly explained the rules to me, but she'd managed to work out a strategy in the meantime.
The two sisters were in front of her, practically indistiguishable from one another. Both had brown eyes and wavy blonde hair with an ahoge that looked like a blade each, but the expression each made could tell you which one was each. The sister wearing a serious frown was Sumi Kakuremino and the one grinning was Sude Kakuremino.
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The victory conditions were to place a king in checkmate on either board, or for either of the Kakuremino sisters to surrender. Well, under the following rules, she doubted the sisters would voluntarily surrender no matter what state the board was in, but the conditions for her defeat were mostly the same, to be placed in checkmate on either board or to surrender.
But on top of that, she was also given a time limit. When it became time for school to close for the day, the game would be over, it would be forced to end with her loss.
As if they were actually playing a game of blitz chess, both the older and younger sisters came at her already knowing the best moves to make and making them with the fastest speeds. So it took all her ability to handle them.
It took all her ability, or at least, that was the performance she put on as she continued this two-board game. As for why she put on such a sluggish performance, well, she wanted to make it so that the Kakuremino sisters got conceited, even if she had to ask them to do so.
