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Freezemate Chess
By: ubersketch Date: April 29, 2018, 6:50 pm
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Rules and pieces are the same as FIDE Chess except when pieces
are mated, all pieces forcing it into mate are frozen forever.
Very simple variant but very interesting concept.
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Re: Freezemate Chess
By: John_Lewis Date: May 1, 2018, 8:23 pm
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[quote author=ubersketch link=topic=132.msg877#msg877
date=1525045801]
Rules and pieces are the same as FIDE Chess except when pieces
are mated, all pieces forcing it into mate are frozen forever.
Very simple variant but very interesting concept.
[/quote]
Do you mean when I piece is "attackable" it is frozen?
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Re: Freezemate Chess
By: ubersketch Date: May 13, 2018, 1:08 pm
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[quote author=John_Lewis link=topic=132.msg884#msg884
date=1525224184]
[quote author=ubersketch link=topic=132.msg877#msg877
date=1525045801]
Rules and pieces are the same as FIDE Chess except when pieces
are mated, all pieces forcing it into mate are frozen forever.
Very simple variant but very interesting concept.
[/quote]
Do you mean when I piece is "attackable" it is frozen?
[/quote]
No, I mean that if any piece putting another piece into
checkmate are frozen.
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Re: Freezemate Chess
By: John_Lewis Date: May 13, 2018, 10:08 pm
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[quote author=ubersketch link=topic=132.msg893#msg893
date=1526234907]
[quote author=John_Lewis link=topic=132.msg884#msg884
date=1525224184]
[quote author=ubersketch link=topic=132.msg877#msg877
date=1525045801]
Rules and pieces are the same as FIDE Chess except when pieces
are mated, all pieces forcing it into mate are frozen forever.
Very simple variant but very interesting concept.
[/quote]
Do you mean when I piece is "attackable" it is frozen?
[/quote]
No, I mean that if any piece putting another piece into
checkmate are frozen.
[/quote]
I don't understand because I think we are using the word
Checkmate differently. When I say Checkmate, it's the end of the
game because one King can make no legal move and is also being
attacked. This is the win condition so it ends the game.
Other pieces can't be Checkmated or even put into Check... as
only the King (or another Royal piece in some variants) can be
put into Check.
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Re: Freezemate Chess
By: BenR Date: May 15, 2018, 4:19 pm
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I also don't understand the proposal either. Does attacking a
pinned piece count as checkmating it? If many pieces checkmate
another, but some proper subset achieves the checkmate, do you
get to choose which ones freeze, or do all of the pieces that
attack any of the defender's movement possibilities freeze?
If I attack a blocked pawn with anything, I lose that piece,
right? This seems like it would lead to a very sluggish game...
Do you win upon checkmating the enemy king, even though
afterwards your checking piece is frozen and no longer giving
check?
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Re: Freezemate Chess
By: ubersketch Date: May 16, 2018, 6:36 pm
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[quote author=BenR link=topic=132.msg897#msg897 date=1526419162]
I also don't understand the proposal either. Does attacking a
pinned piece count as checkmating it? If many pieces checkmate
another, but some proper subset achieves the checkmate, do you
get to choose which ones freeze, or do all of the pieces that
attack any of the defender's movement possibilities freeze?
If I attack a blocked pawn with anything, I lose that piece,
right? This seems like it would lead to a very sluggish game...
Do you win upon checkmating the enemy king, even though
afterwards your checking piece is frozen and no longer giving
check?
[/quote]
Every piece is frozen.
You win upon checkmating the enemy king, meaning it doesn't have
anywhere to go without getting captured.
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Re: Freezemate Chess
By: John_Lewis Date: May 17, 2018, 8:24 am
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To understand this, I think you'll need to give an example game.
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