Talk:Antichess

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Do you mean the FICS or ICC? It says FICS but links to ICC... --Sgeo | Talk 20:54, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Languages

I do believe that this is the English Wikipedia, therefore this article should not have 'antichess' in many different languages. The 'in other languages' portion should be removed immediately. --M79_specialist 03:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Losing Chess = Giveaway Chess = Suicide Chess ≠ Loser's Chess

In the first three the King is treated as a regular piece, ie it can be captured and there is no notion of check, however in Loser's chess, the King cannot be captured, move into check, or ignore a check. However if a player's King is checkmated or stalemated that player wins (as opposed to the opponent winning or the game ending in a draw). This is according to FICS, ICC, and the Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. (There are less reliable sites on the Internet which do not make this distinction.) Imran 21:27, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

In fact the four terms are synonyms and used to mean the same variant. Losers Chess (without the apostrophe,) was first created, to my knowledge, in the ICC. They wouldn't call it Suicide with the Check rule, so they called it "Losers Chess". —This comment was added by Sibahi (talk • contribs) 04:36, April 1, 2007 (UTC)

Are you saying that "Loser's Chess" existed as a synonym for Suicide Chess before ICC invented "Losers Chess"? Imran 21:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess. —This comment was added by Sibahi (talk • contribs) 04:36, April 2, 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure? Do you have any references that define Loser's Chess as synonymous with Losing Chess? I cannot find any mention of it - I can only find Losers chess defined as Losing chess but with the check/checkmate/stalemate/castling rules.

[edit] Purpose??

Who invented this variant?? What advantage does it have over regular chess?? Georgia guy 20:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)