Azazel Chess

Ser-h#3

Azazel Chess

In the nice horror movie Fallen (G. Hoblit, 1998), Azazel (Leviticus, 16, 8-10) is a fallen angel with the power to possess human beings by touch. I think about, creating this new fairy condition, whose rules are the following ones:

1. Every man (the King, too), if lies on a square which is contiguous (orthogonally or diagonally) with another man, of either colour, may take on its powers. If there are many contiguous men, the player cannot choose but one of them.

2. The acquired powers have consequences only during the adversary's reply, then the man takes back its old condition.

3. The player can make a move and/or activate the trasformation of one man's powers.

In the "problem" above (sol. 1. Kg3 2. Kg2 3. Kh1, S6g4 / Sh2 > K#), 1. Kg3 is legal, because, even if White had to move, he might, but not should reply with 1... Sh2 > K+, If the Kh6 were already in g4, the mating move would be simply 3... Sh2 > K#).

Let's see the following position:

Azazel Chess

Here, W could not checks contemporarily the BK with the Rook and with the Knight as Kings, and, if 1. Ra3 / Sc3 ++, Black could reply with 1... Kb3 > R / R (say) b8 or with 1... Kxc2 or Kc4, but not with 1... (say) Kb3 > S / Kc1, because, until the next move, Sc2 has King's powers.