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Withdrawing Chess. (Updated!) Any piece can withdraw from other pieces to capture them. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Mar 26 06:18 AM EDT:

It is not clear whether the withdrawer capture in this variant is mandatory or optional. The use of the word 'can' in phrase " All pieces (including king and pawn) can make a capturing move as a Withdrawer" suggests to me that it is optional. I.e., when a Queen in this variant moves from e4 to g4, and there is an enemy Pawn on d4, it can both do it as a Withdrawer move to capture the Pawn, or as a normal FIDE move, leaving the Pawn alone. The Interactive Diagram follows this interpretation.