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Subject: Re: New Wild Chess Varient: What do you think?

Author: Angrim

Date: 13:05:50 08/11/02

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On August 10, 2002 at 13:59:22, Anson T J wrote:

>Wild chess (variations of the game) can be fun. I thought up a new variation.
>I've played a few games vs my brother and it seems to be fair. I would like
>someone to modify their program so that I could do some analysis.
>
>Anyone interested to help? :-)
>
>I call it Go Chess :)

If you go to www.chessvariants.com you will find that there is already
another variant called go-chess listed, with a whole different set of
rules.  And if you are interested in variants, that site will keep
you busy just reading for hours.

>The board Starts Empty, 1st move, must place the King anywhere, (white moves
>1st) then Black places his king (must not place it in Check nor is a piece
>allowed to be placed which checks the opponent's King).
>
>Pieces are placed or moved on the board (placed pieces taken from the array of
>standard chess pieces (8 panks 1 Queen 2 rooks etc). Pawns must not be placed on
>the 8th or 7th rank. Once a pawn has been promoted and subsquently recaptured,
>it may return to the game only as a pawn and not as a Queen for example!
>
>We normally start by placing kings in the middle then Queens etc. Seems quite
>fun :-)
>
>Let me know what you think! Before ppl say Chess is good enough as it is, I
>already agree, but this is a new game which can be interesting.
>
>Regards
>
>Anson

If you make the minor change that both sides start with their kings
already on the board, then the rest of the rules are standard for
crazyhouse, so you should have no trouble finding strong programs
to play the resulting "variant". Just look for Sjeng v11 which
still had variant support, or Sunsetter.

Angrim



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