Play a novel approach
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From: Supervise the New Game
Where to start? This pawn? Or how about this knight?
Game Instructions: This will gain a point of Positional Advantages or a point of Strategic Weaknesses, depending on whether you succeed.
Unlocked with 
Progress on the Board, 
Colour at the Chessboard exactly 1
Challenge information
Narrow, 
A Player of Chess 2 (50% base)
- 0 - high-risk (30%)
- 1 - tough (40%)
- 2 - very chancy (50%)
- 3 - chancy (60%)
- 4 - modest (70%)
- 5 - very modest (80%)
- 6 - low-risk (90%)
- 7 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
A good beginning
You put a pawn forward: a skilled and valuable spy, disguised as a housemaid in an Ambassador's house. The beginning of a long plan.
You are moving through the opening. (Increases 
Progress on the Board by 1)
You've gained 1 x Positional Advantages
You now have (
Positional Advantages - Strategic Weaknesses) x Position on the Board: Distance ahead- You now have ( Strategic Weaknesses - Positional Advantages) x Position on the Board: Distance behind
Failure
Smirks all around
The opposing pawns titter. Too late, you realise what it is. Your ciphers have been cracked; all your enemies have been reading your instructions to the front for months.
- You are moving through the opening. (Increases Progress on the Board by 1)
- You've gained 1 x Strategic Weaknesses
- You now have ( Positional Advantages - Strategic Weaknesses) x Position on the Board: Distance ahead
A Player of Chess is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5 + A Player's Studies)
