Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 260 | It, like the chess pawn, can capture only diagonally. |
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 257 | The Spearman is not View more quotes about permitted">permitted retreat. |
| 12 | 258 | It, after its initial move, may move only one space at a time. |
| 12 | 259 | This move may be directly or diagonally forward, or sideways. |
| 12 | 260 | It, like the chess pawn, can capture only diagonally. |
| 12 | 261 | I could not move my Home Stone in front of the Spearman, even if I had wished to do so, because of his Scribe's coverage from afar of that square, Ubar's Builder One. |
| 12 | 262 | Similarly, even if I had had the option in the circumstances, which I did not, I could not have brought my Builder to that square for defensive purposes without exposing it to the attack of the same piece. |
| 12 | 263 | I now began to suspect that what I had thought had been a rather weak, easily averted threat of capture of Home Stone, the earlier alignment of his Ubara and Scribe on that crucial diagonal, might actually have had a somewhat different, more latent, more insidious purpose. |
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The Spearman is not permitted retreat.
It, after its initial move, may move only one space at a time.
This move may be directly or diagonally forward, or sideways.
It, like the chess pawn, can capture only diagonally.
I could not move my Home Stone in front of the Spearman, even if I had wished to do so, because of his Scribe's coverage from afar of that square, Ubar's Builder One.
Similarly, even if I had had the option in the circumstances, which I did not, I could not have brought my Builder to that square for defensive purposes without exposing it to the attack of the same piece.
I now began to suspect that what I had thought had been a rather weak, easily averted threat of capture of Home Stone, the earlier alignment of his Ubara and Scribe on that crucial diagonal, might actually have had a somewhat different, more latent, more insidious purpose.
- (Players of Gor)