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Roberto Lavieri wrote on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 03:46 PM UTC:
I´m thinking on a strange variant of Chess: It is forbidden Check the enemy
King. It is offensive, ignominious, and you can´t put the other King in
Check or you lose. Start-up is the same as Chess, and all the pieces
capture identically than in Chess, but with a new rule: once a piece has
moved, another identical piec is created in the starting position of the
piece that have been moved. You lose the game if you Check the enemy King,
or if you are stalemated. I have not tested this variant for playability
yet, so I don´t know how it works, but it should be interesting to see.

Peter Aronson wrote on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 04:34 PM UTC:
The name <b>Antichess</b> is used in many places as alternate name for <a href='../diffobjective.dir/giveaway.html'>Giveaway Chess</a>, otherwise <a href='../diffobjective.dir/anti-king-chess.html'>Anti-King Chess</a> would have been likely called that. <p> The game you describe has some simularity to my game of <u>Sacred King</u> (found on the hard-to-locate Modest Proposal - Various Authors page <a href='../other.dir/modest-various.html'>here</a>), but the creation of pieces when you move might avoid the tendency of Sacred King to be endless.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 06:32 PM UTC:
Your first rule is the same as the first rule in Parton's game
Contramatic
Chess.

Doug Chatham wrote on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 06:44 PM UTC:
So how do you get the pawns out of the way of the pieces in the back row?

Peter Aronson wrote on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 06:51 PM UTC:
Contramatic Chess can be found about two-thirds the way down <a href='../parton/Curiouser&Curiouser.txt'>this</a> page.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Fri, Mar 19, 2004 01:06 AM UTC:
First tests: Rule 2 makes the game endless in many cases: Pawns are not 
good pieces for this game. On the other hand, Contramatic exists, I have
made a few tests with it, and I dislike the game play, but this is only my
modest subjective opinion. Anti-Chess or something else around this idea:
Rejected project, at least by my part, it was only an exploratory idea.

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