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       Kung Fu Chess
       By: Asher Hurowitz Date: March 25, 2018, 1:54 pm
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       (Writing this in Morocco - I can hear the call to prayer as I
       write!)
       I recently saw this on r/chessvariants:
  HTML https://www.kfchess.com/
       It's chess but in real time, with no turns. After moving a piece
       there is a small time limit, which I assume is promotional in
       length to the value of the piece where you cannot move it. I
       tried playing the AI on the site, and any mode other than the
       most advanced one is pretty much trivial. The website is in beta
       testing phase so don't expect a completely finished page, what
       is notable is that there is no alert for checks. For example, I
       was just moving around during a game vs the AI and didn't
       realize until later I could just take the king. I am not sure
       about whether or not this is a ripoff of Judo Chess, which is
       exactly the same, the website for that below, or a relaunch.
  HTML http://www.judochess.com/
       Thanks,
       Asher
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       Re: Kung Fu Chess
       By: John_Lewis Date: March 27, 2018, 3:50 pm
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       Kung Fu Chess was first, IIRC and it was a lively site for
       awhile, but then died off. Judo Chess was the reboot and I don't
       know if it was with or without the blessings of the original.
       The concept is very interesting and while I played a lot of Kung
       Fu Chess when the site was up, I never got deep enough to
       develop an opening theory or even win regularly. It was,
       however, very compelling to play. I wish there was something
       like it that was more correspondence based... in other words
       hours/days to refresh a piece rather than seconds. That would be
       interesting to me.
       Tactically a very interesting concept. The Strategy is yet
       undefined fully but I seem to remember there were some sites
       covering the basics. Extremely open play, since piece start to
       fall off the board quickly.
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