Teleportation Toilet Chess

"Teleportation" is not an official rule or common gameplay of Toilet Chess. Toilet Chess is a traditional folk board game that is popular in the southwest region of China. The following is a detailed introduction from the aspects of the board and pieces, piece movement rules, piece capture rules, and win-loss determination:

• Board and Pieces: The game is played on a board carved from bluestone or derived from a 16-square grid with additional elements. The center of the board is a diamond shape symbolizing a toilet, and the outermost endpoints of the diamond are called "outhouses". Each player has 9 pieces at the start, with 5 used for the initial setup and 4 as reserves. The pieces can be made from porcelain shards, wood, stones, small wooden blocks, glass beads, cigarette butts, etc.
• Piece Movement Rules: In the horizontal and vertical directions, a piece can only move one step forward at a time, whether it is one square or multiple squares. In the diagonal direction, a piece can extend infinitely as long as there are no other pieces blocking it. It can extend from one landing point to any point on the same diagonal line. When moving, a piece must take one step and cannot skip or land on a position already occupied by another piece.
• Piece Capture Rules:
  • Trapping: When one player's piece is adjacent to another player's piece and there is an empty space on the other side, when it is the other player's turn, if their piece moves to the empty space, the adjacent piece of the first player can be captured. However, it must be ensured that there are no other pieces on the same line.
  • Pincers: If there is an empty space between two pieces of one player, when it is the other player's turn, if their piece moves to the empty space, both pieces of the first player can be captured simultaneously. This is also subject to the "blocking piece" rule.
  • Trapping and Pincers Captures: When a player's piece traps an opponent's single piece in a straight-line empty space, the opponent's piece can be captured and the empty space filled. If an empty space appears between two of the opponent's pieces, the player can capture them by advancing their own pieces.
• Win-Loss Determination: A player wins by reducing the opponent's pieces to the last one, forcing it into the "outhouse" and blocking it with three of their own pieces. If a player's pieces are all captured, it is a draw. There is also a saying that the win-loss is determined by whether one player is left with the last piece and forced into the "pagoda top" at the top of the temple (rules related to Temple Chess, which is also known as Toilet Chess).