Entry #3215.XI.2024
I was dreaming of chess.
The chessboard was looking like the center of Madrid or really any other european town, had houses of many colors tightly next to each other, a river in the middle of the board horzontally and an alley in the middle vertically on the white's side.
I remember some incident on the a file with rooks: white's king was supposed to be in a castling position on the b file, both a pawns were missing, and for some reason me (playing as white) trying to move a b pawn from its starting position (diagonally without capturing anything btw) almost opened the king for check from the black rook on the a file, i haven't really figured the logic in this one.
Then my opponent (an undisclosed entity; i haven't seen or heard them the entire game, but perceived their suggestions / thoughts in some other hard to describe way) told me to choose two pieces of mine, including discarded ones (i don't remember if by this they meant those i captured or those of mine they captured). I chose a rook and a pawn, they chose a pawn and something else of little value (not sure if that was a real chess piece).
Then they declared that the chosen pieces will now fuse with each other. They started doing so, transforming mechanically into a united piece. I got a very tall tower with a rook on the top, they got something resembling a bishop or an elongated pawn but with a sharp pointy top like a thin square pyramid. And then they declared that they now take my piece and use it as one of their own, and i do the same with their creation. I was like: okay, you got me there!
They took this tower of mine and somehow also fused their queen into it, making it even more tall and menacing; also it now had a crown hanging sloppily in the middle of it. This construction was placed on the queen's initial position on one of the central files. I was like: okay, i'm down material, but they just traded a queen for this towery piece, let's hope i can manage this.
On their next move this new tower piece made a rook move across the entire board to line 2 or 3, jumping over the river and zooming past two of my pawns on adjacent files through that alley i was talking about in the beginning.
And then i remembered that hey - that was the first move of that piece - and it should be obeying all the rules its component pieces have - and there's a pawn in the middle of it (though hidden under a crown as my opponent wanted me to forget it's there) - and i was like en passant, bitch! taking the tower with one of my pawns diagonally on its trail.
I felt incredibly accomplished doing this :D