Prompt 10 - chess

It was a bright and sunny day in the forest. Scabior had set out a chess board on a wide flat rock outside his tent and he and Greyback were going to play a game of chess in the warm spring sunshine.

"What do you mean you've never played wizard chess before?"

"Just wha I said, Greyback. When I was younger I mostly played exploding snap. I was the school champion for three straight years with exploding snap, patience snap an the regular match version of the game."

"Then why bother trying to learn how to play it now?"

"Because I thought it might be fun to learn something new."

"Right." Greyback shifted slightly in his seat, carefully studying the pieces he'd set up on the board.

There was a long pause.

"Uh, Scabior..."

"Yes?"

"Have you ever heard the phrase 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks? '"

Scabior sighed, knowing exactly what the werewolf was getting at.

"I don't really know how to play chess either," Greyback confessed, looking up at Scabior. "I was never much of a boarthegames type of person. I mean look at me. Do I look like the type of person who sits around playing board games?"

"No," Scabior said simply.

There was another long pause.

"So, what do we do now?" asked Greyback.

"'Ang on a second," said Scabior. "I think I 'ave an idea. You know 'ow to play checkers, right?"

"Yeah," Greyback said at length. "What about it?"

Scabior drew his wand and moved it in slow circles over the chess board. Pictures magically appeared on some of the squares. Some of the pictures were of a bomb with a lit fuse, others shown a picture of a crown. There were also pictures of a bullseye, a shield, and some glittering sparkles in the squares.

"This is something me an my brother used to do as children," said Scabior. "Nither one of us could figure out 'ow to play chess. So I started charming the board to make it more interesting since we couldn't play it right.

"The squares with bombs on them are dung bombs. Land on one of those an your chess pieces explodes. A crown means you instantly get crowned king like in checkers. Bullseyes represent the killing curse. Land on tha an you can remove, or rather kill, any of your opponent's pieces on the board. Sparkles are apparition squares. You can move the piece tha lands on it to anywhere on the board. An the shield is of course a shield charm. Land on tha an your piece can't be jumped or killed by the killing curse for three turns.

"The pictures on the board change every so often. So if you dont reach a desired picture in time it may vanish before you get there."

Greyback looked fairly impressed with this setup. This was a new way to play the game that he'd never seen before, and he had to admit it looked like fun.

"So we're playing checkers with chess pieces?" he asked, pointing to the board.

Scabior nodded, smiling at the werewolf.

"This is chess an checkers with magic spells," he said.

"Alright," said Greyback. "Let's give it a go. I'm up for a couple games of this."