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Subject: Re: What is "wild"?

Author: Chessfun

Date: 16:09:17 12/11/00

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On December 11, 2000 at 07:34:42, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>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".

While they all have various names including the two you quoted,
I think what I wrote answers the question that was posted.

Sarah.





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