"Victory again? Not bad, not bad. You've positioned your pieces quite well for this game."
The woman's sincere praise did little to improve Han Xuhan's mood. Most of his major pieces were in the central area of the board. It was hardly a coincidence that those pieces would win repeatedly against the weaker pieces that would typically be advanced by the opponent.
Unless she played in a similar style, breaking most rules of basic gameplay, many of her pieces were going to be killed in the following moves.
And the game did progress just like that.
One after another, pieces began to clash in almost every move. The outcome was mostly one-sided. Although the visions were rather vague about which two pieces were involved in each battle, the sheer difference in combat power and the appearance of the avatars revealed enough clues to make educated guesses.
Gradually, Han Xuhan discovered some basic rules of this unfamiliar mode of chess.
