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players' engagement measure determines possession of the free engagement

lantern....... seems fine

You figure out the rest.

Okay, I made the dang thing and whipped up a video yesterday.

"Us vs. Chess" is a collaborative variant where you and your teammates control a few weird Black fairy pieces against a computer player with a standard set for White.

This is a work in progress. In short, the puzzle of designing it is a matter of formulating the black pieces in an interesting and balanced way against the computer player's strength.

Came up with this an hour ago. All the standard pawns are replaced with standard rooks and the rooks with pawns. Black kept winning(!), first with a king-and-queen mate and then a much faster queen-and-bishop mate, so I have given the computer three minutes to think about every move. This computer gaming program will be the end of me.

Black wins again with 29. ... Qf7#. White sacrificed its Queen on move 7 when it could have instead easily used a Knight or Rook to take back. I can't tell if I broke the engine with too many available Rook moves or if the game is just somehow massively skewed for Black.

Zillions' weird notation below: