Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Larry Smith wrote on Sat, May 28, 2005 04:57 AM UTC:In actuality, placing a King in a check position which the opponent cannot remove in the next move would be a loss for the player moving the King. Consider that in a normal flow of events, the checking player would not previously have the opposing King under threat or it would have already been a won game. So in this game, checkmate would still be a loss. There just would be little restriction to placing a King in a checked position. The King would become a piece which the opponent needs to avoid, the player could use the King to influence the opponent's moves. Removing the check of an opposing King would be mandatory. But the player must consider that the opponent must have the ability to remove this check. So placing a King in threat against a Pawn on its initial position would be illegal since that piece would not have the option to remove the threat. Placing the other pieces into initial positions which limit their mobility would take up most of the tactics in this game. For example: the Rooks in their initial position would not be forced to move if their Pawns are also in position. Rather than controlling the center of the field, players might attempt to control the outer cells. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Back to the Past does not match any item.