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How much work would it take to modify the Ultima preset to allow the
Withdrawer to engage in additional withdrawals (in different directions,
of course) if it ends up (fortuitously enough) in a square adjacent to an
enemy piece that so situated it is subject to capture by the Withdrawer?

This kind of a change would make the Withdrawer considerably more powerful
than it is right now.  Allowing 'bonus' withdrawals would, if
implemented, make the piece enjoying that power a 'Multi-Withdrawer'
(similar to the Multi-Leaper that is already part of the Preset).  That
may not be too important in an 8x8 version of Baroque (like Ultima), but
in 9x9 and 10x10 versions with more pieces, and necessarily more
Withdrawers, it could make the game that much deeper to ponder.

Innovations along those lines *would* make it more difficult to calculate
when a King is in check, but that's something I think I could live with.