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Subject: Re: What is "wild"?

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 04:34:42 12/11/00

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On December 11, 2000 at 06:13:27, Chessfun wrote:

>On December 11, 2000 at 06:04:37, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I have seen it mentioned here many times, but actually I don't have any idea
>>what it is? Is it may be special blitz level? Fisherrandom?
>>
>>thanks Jouni
>
>There are many types of wild.
>Such as loser's chess and randoms.
>Go to ICC as a guest or member and type "help wild"
>and you'll get a list of various wild games.
>
>Sarah.

On Fics "wild" is defined as normal chess with different starting positions, for
example fisher random, or black king on d8, queen on e8 else normal setup, or
"backward chess", pawns start on 7th rank.
Chess variants with different playing rules have distinct names like "suicide"
or "crazyhouse".

Regards,
Georg



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