How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse
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How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse
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Re: How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse
#2You can also just play on one board, swapping your opponents pieces for pieces of your color when you take them (obviously you need two sets of pieces). This is called crazyhouse.
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#3So as someone who has played A LOT of bughouse in his day... Bughouse is awesome. Never thought of playing Singles.
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#4I don't play chess but what does Jason do at the 2:02 mark?
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#5I don't play chess but what does Jason do at the 2:02 mark?
I'm not sure which one is Jason but it looks to me like both of them opt to add a captured piece to the board (which is a rule only present in Bughouse and not regular chess).
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#6I tend to play a few games of Go throughout the day for the same reason. A great game of go is like a street fight, it gets you totally amped up for everything else.
Rengo is fun too, it gives you sort of the feeling of being a crazy artistic genius. Extremely inspiring, but it's a pain to get four people to play it.
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#8Me and and three other PhD students in sharing an office used to play a few quick rounds of Unreal Tournament before starting the nightly coding sessions, from our own UT server we had set up. Those were the days...
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#9I haven't played bughouse in over a decade, so I've got to ask: what's with the openings in this video? Is bughouse strategy so different that there's a whole new opening book, are there some openings I'm completely ignorant of, or am I just overthinking things?
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#10I don't play chess but what does Jason do at the 2:02 mark?
It's part of the Bughouse variant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess#Captured_pieces