Up it went. Two squares. Rruyshah didn't object. She didn't make up her own rules as she went along. Unlike some people.
Pawns dominated the early and middle game; each competitor lost one "horse" and one "bishop". Rruyshah, however, also lost her queen. This angered her considerably.
But she liked fiddling with pawns. The only ones she had access to were her opponent's captured ones, however, so she decided to do something to remedy that fact. With three of her own, she launched a suicidal attack on his outer flank.
>What are you doing that for?>
"You'll see," she smiled, as one of hers was removed from the board. She placed him in "check". His only legal move was, curiously enough, capturing a second of her pawns, which he did.
>No…I think you're just moronic.>
"You think?"
>Are you agreeing with me?>
"I'm stunned at the fact something like you could think anything."
As her opponent decided that yes, that was to be taken as an insult, Rruyshah smugly moved her pawn to the final row of squares. >What did you do that for? It can't go anywhere now.>
"Precisely. That's why I'll have to get rid of it." She snatched the pawn off the board. "Put my queen there."
>Your queen? But I took that!>
"And I got it back."
>How?>
"By moving my pawn to your row. It's fair-I lost two of mine."
>Yeah, but that doesn't mean you get your queen back.>
"If you can do your castl'n'king trick…"
>You're not allowed to use that excuse on everything.>
"Well, I'll save it for next game because I just won this one. The queen checks the king here." Rruyshah indicated the board.
>You're already a hundred games up. You don't need excuses.>
"I do if we're playing to a thousand."
>A->
"Also known as ten to the third."
>Noo…not math…>
"Chess then."
And chess it was.