Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
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Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
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Re: Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
#2DeepMind and Kramnik had an interesting paper a few months back exploring possible chess variants:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04374
The basic idea is to train AlphaZero on proposed variants, and look for ones that have fewer draws and a smaller advantage for white.
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#3If you've abandoned chess.com for lichess.org, you might be surprised to learn that chess.com now hosts 15 variants.
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#4If you've abandoned chess.com for lichess.org, you might be surprised to learn that chess.com now hosts 15 variants.
Is there any variant where both players play blind every other move or in the starting?
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#5Go baduk weiqi is still worth looking into for chess players.
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#6In university, friends in the lab came up with, and regularly played, a 4-player version we called "Drop Chess".
In this variant, there are two games going on at once asynchronously. Your partner is sitting beside you, but playing the opposite colour. Whatever pieces he captures, you can drop on the board- but not until the next turn after he captured it, and with some extra rules about where it can go. When one game ends, both games are over.
It was as much fun to watch as play.
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#7Promotions are a big part of shogi, and part of what makes it fun. You do not start with the most powerful pieces, you have to earn them through promotions. Also, the promotion area (the enemy camp) is larger. This article doesn't capture that aspect of the game... which is necessary if you are looking for an ideal chess variant.
You may also want to take a look at some mechanics of Xiangqi, another chess variant.
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#8In university, friends in the lab came up with, and regularly played, a 4-player version we called "Drop Chess". In this variant, there are two games going on at once asynchronously. Your partner is sitting beside you, but playing the opposite colour. Whatever pieces he captures, you can drop on the board- but not until the next turn after he captured it, and with some extra rules about where it can go. When one game…
This was a regular thing at tournaments I used to play as a kid. We called it “transfer”.
Re: Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
#9If you've abandoned chess.com for lichess.org, you might be surprised to learn that chess.com now hosts 15 variants.
pychess.org has many chess variants, and you can play against the AI to try them out. No registration required.
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#10In university, friends in the lab came up with, and regularly played, a 4-player version we called "Drop Chess". In this variant, there are two games going on at once asynchronously. Your partner is sitting beside you, but playing the opposite colour. Whatever pieces he captures, you can drop on the board- but not until the next turn after he captured it, and with some extra rules about where it can go. When one game…
This was a regular thing at tournaments I used to play as a kid. We called it “transfer”.
You know, come to think of it, probably someone in the lab learned it elsewhere and brought it.
None of us were bright enough to come up with that gem.