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Game Courier Tournament #1. A multi-variant tournament played on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Thomas McElmurry wrote on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 01:00 AM UTC:
There are a few rules that aren't clear to me, and these should probably
be nailed down before the tournament begins.

1) In Eurasian Chess, if a pawn on the ninth rank is immobile due to a
dearth of captured pieces, can it still give check?

2) The rules of Chessgi seem to allow dropping a pawn on the first rank,
but they do not state how it may move from there. I can think of six
sensible rules: a pawn on the first rank could step forward one, up to
two, or up to three squares, and in any of these cases a pawn moving from
the first rank to the second could either retain or lose the right to step
forward two squares on its next move. Regardless of which rule is correct,
I assume that the en passant rule is applied in the logical way.

3) There is also the issue of the precedence of victory conditions in
Maxima, currently being discussed on that game's page.