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H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Apr 18, 2023 07:17 AM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 05:55 AM:

As for the board, I have tried to make a 11x11 board but I only get a 11x5 board. How do I change that?

Hard to say what you are doing wrong when you do not even say what you did...

The rules are much clearer now, but some issues still remain:

* You use the phrase 'next to' apparently also for being a Knight's move away. While the intuitive meaning would be limited to a King's move away. This begs the question of whether a Watcher can be placed a Knight's jump away from the enemy King when not all Peacemakers have been revealed yet.

* You say pieces other than Watchers can be moved to empty squares in the celestial domain. But can they also be captured there? To capture they would obviously have to move to a square that is not empty. You don't say anything about that. I suppose it must be possible to capture (or check) them, otherwise the players would withdraw their King to the celestial domain at the earliest possible moment. The rules in that case would be more easily phrased by stating that the entire 11x11 board is accessible to normal pieces, but that they cannot capture Watchers, and that Watchers cannot only move to the eartly domain.

About the rules themselves: you do have a rule that prevents a Watcher can be revealed as Peacemaker close to the opponent's King. But I think it should be a much larger worry a player would place one next to his own King. That would provide him with a very easy way to win in the next move, by approaching that Peacemaker.