Breakthrough

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Use your rook to check blue or green's royal ferz eight times to release your four knights from behind a wall of pawns, but watch out: if you spend the first eight turns freeing your knights, your opponent will rush through your defenses and promote a pawn to a knight of their own.

So, the choice is yours: Free your knights from behind the pawns, or attack with what you have and create a hole in your opponent's defenses. Or, do a bit of both.

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Note: I know this contains bots, but the bots literally do nothing until they are checkmated.

Second Note: If this gets accepted, could the blue/green soldiers be replaced by xiangqi horses? It would look cool and have no change on the gameplay.