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Esoteric Strategies of Antiquity Boards
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Phase of play focusing on tactical complexity
- 2. Capturing tactic surrounding opponent pieces
- 3. Blocking opponent's path with your piece
- 4. Ancient Chinese stone repositioning technique
- 5. Rule allowing freeing of captured pieces or positions
- 6. Ancient Japanese chess variant's poetic gambit
- 13. Medieval term for complex trapping maneuvers
- 15. Neutral intersection in Go preventing territory gain
- 18. Removal of an opponent’s piece by enclosure
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- 7. Tiling pieces used in strategy puzzles, five squares each
- 8. Rule permitting repositioning of game pieces mid-play
- 9. Weighted advantage to balance uneven player strengths
- 10. Old Norse board's asymmetric king's refuge
- 11. Points compensation for second player in Go
- 12. Escape maneuver from encircled position
- 14. Advancing a pawn or token to gain new power
- 16. Compelling move forcing disadvantage in turn-based play
- 17. Go term describing mutual capture race
- 19. Seed-sowing game principle from African antiquity
- 20. Five-in-a-row alignment on a grid
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