Sunday, September 21, 2014

[gnbuouyc] More stalemate-like

Conservatives prefer to keep the stalemate rule in chess because it makes endgames trickier.  Go further in that direction, assuming such mechanisms make the game richer and more interesting: what other new rules could be added to chess to make endgames even trickier, to provide more drawing (or winning) resources to the materially weaker side?

Many of the ideas previously mentioned would probably work.

Opponent gets to choose what a given pawn promotes to. Knight and bishop will be common.

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