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)
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[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)
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- 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)
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- 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.
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This exact game, with the same rules (except for allowing castling), was spontaneously invented by some of my friends and me in my high school chess club back in the early 1970s. For reasons I cannot remember, we took to calling it "English Chess," which I don't think was any kind of calumny on English chess players but a reference to the "english" or spin we were putting on the game. --Potosino 17:00, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Purpose??
Who invented this variant?? What advantage does it have over regular chess?? Georgia guy 20:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- It is more fun to play! --Potosino 16:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Source?
The claim about certain openings being solved by computation is not sourced. I don't doubt it is true, but it would be interesting to be able to follow the source to get more details about this work. Marcus 87.123.165.231 12:08, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
- I suspect that the `certain openings being solved` source is the link titled `Nitalac's Opening Book` in the links section. User46 02:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)User46
