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1 Movement options
2 Piece movement
3 Phalanx movement
5 Phalanx capture 2
6 Piece capture 1
7 Piece capture 2
8 Three-fold
9 Notation


4. Phalanx Capture 1

Capture is compulsory. In Bushka all capture is by approach. There are two distinct ways to do this:

  • Piece-capture
  • Phalanx-capture
Piece-capture means capture with a man or a king.
Phalanx-capture means capture with a phalanx.
  • Phalanx-capture has precedence over piece-capture!
If the player to move can make exactly one phalanx-capture, he must do so. If he can make more than one, he must choose the capture that brings the maximum number of captured pieces. A king counts as one piece. If there's more than one way to meet this criterion, the player is free to choose.

If the player to move cannot make a phalanx-capture, he must look for a piece-capture. If he can make exactly one, he must do so. If he can make more than one, he must choose the capture that brings the maximum number of captured pieces. A king counts as one piece. If there's more than one way to meet this criterion, the player is free to choose.

Phalanx Capture

A phalanx makes only one movement in a turn. In a capture, this movement may be forward or backward. If the square in front of a phalanx is vacant and the square beyond is occupied by an opponent's piece, the phalanx captures by approaching one square, 'touching' the piece with its head.

  • If the piece is a king, it is therewith captured and removed in the same turn.
  • If the piece is a man that is the head of an opposing phalanx on the same line, that entire phalanx is therewith captured and removed in the same turn.
  • If this is not the case, only the man itself is captured.
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Diagram 4

Diagram 4 shows an excerpt from Game 3 of a match between Anneke Treep and Christian Freeling. We're at move 11 of a combination white initiated with his eighth move. After gf4 black has no other option than to capture with the two-men phalanx on the 4-line: cxe4. White next captures the 6-men phalanx on the e-line with e1x3. In the actual game black, Anneke in this case, resigned.

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