The Rules!
| Okay,
it’s quite different from an ordinary Chess game, but we still need
to go by rules. We
play as the rules for a normal game of Chess, except that:
* All players must consult a competant Local Orthodox Rabbi before making an move. * If the same piece is moved for three consecutive turns, this constitutes a Hazakah, and it must be moved again in the next turn. * All pieces must move upwards, never downwards. * If a Rebbe is threatened (chas veshalom), he can call for a Tisch. In this case, he is immediately surrounded by his Talmidim, fund-raisers, and people asking obscure Halachic Shalylahs no matter where any of them were at the time, and the attacker simply cannot get anywhere near him to put him in Check. * If a Rebbe is forced to move backwards and forwards to avoid Check three times, this is also a Hazakah, and his Yeshivot are sent into Gallut (exiled from the board) by the opposing Novi. * If a player is doing badly, his Novi can threaten the other side and perform miracles to force them to repent, but only hidden ones. If the opponent’s pieces refuse to recognise the Truth, they are sent to gallut (exiled from the board). * A Melech can annoint any of his pieces as a Kohen Gadol (but NOT the Melech himself). The Kohen Gadol can then Bless the other pieces, who move an extra space that turn. This only applies to pieces which are standing in front of the Kohen Gadol when he makes the Blessing. This can only be invoked if the Blessing player still has ten pieces left. * If, (chas veshalom,) pieces are captured, they can repent, and will be returned to the board in the time of Moshiach. * If a player still
has twenty-one pieces, he can invoke a Sanhedrin, and condemn
the other player’s Novi as a false prophet, and then stone him
to death, once per game, but only if the game is being played in the
Chamber of Hewn Stones in the Temple... |
