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Thankies

Maybe we should continue this over on the Chess discussion board

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=6

For Horde Chess:

1)Allow the Hordes' Pawns to move one or two steps from any square on their half of the board. As usual, allow "in passing" captures. This small change might be enough to change the balance of power.

2)Adding more Pawns might work as suggested by kkkeeek.

3)How about adding a King to the Horde, but still require the chess set to capture every Pawn and then checkmate the lone King? The King could be checked and captured if not moved out of check, but not checkmated until the last Pawn is captured. If he is checkmated but still has one or more Pawns left of the Horde, it will be a win for the Horde.

I think idea 1 would be the most workable and easiest to impliment. If it proved to give the Horde an advantage it might have to have some modifications made to it, like only allow each Pawn the two step move if they're on the second row or haven't individually been moved if on the third or fourth row. It'd certainly give the Horde some more options just being able to move two steps from the third and fourth row. Would it be enough to offset the chess set's advantage though. How's 'bout some beta testing? Fencer could you set up a section of this site for play testing some of these games or rules changes that people come up with?

Idea 3 would change the nature of the game and probably wouldn't be Horde Chess any more. All the same, how many times would the Horde have prevailed if it just had a little more power on the board to tip the scale a little towards it? The King is the weakest of the chess pieces and still the symbolic leader of the troops. This idea could work also if you just added the King as an extra piece and didn't treat his capture as any different than losing a Pawn and required the chess set to capture all the Pawns and the King in any order. If it isn't enough to tip the power, perhaps two Kings could added? Put them in the space on the back row? Or maybe add a Knight? I'd start with just adding one King and see what happens to the winning statistics, especially if the added King is treated as just another piece on the board. That should be an easy addition to the game.

Maharajah Chess

1) Adding a second Maharjah seems like giving to much power to the Maharajah's side. Especially if the Maharajah side can continue on in the game after losing one of the Maharajahs. I suppose it'd need testing. If it proves too powerful, a weaker piece could be tried. I'm amazed the Maharajah wins almost 30% percent of the games here. It obviously is a strong piece that can checkmate by itself without back up. Just adding a Rook to its side might be more than enough to balance its chances out. It could lose the Rook and continue on, but the Maharajah would be like the King and lose the game if checkmated.

2) How about adding a row of Pawns to the Maharjah's side? That should help slow down the advance of the chess set's pieces. And, as with the Chess Set's side, no promotions.

2¢

Hi,
usually only symmetrical games are balanced, because it is very difficult to figure out which arrangent is equal when there are different start positions or different pieces. But, sometimes I think also symmetrical games can extremly favour one side (usually white). One example: In Three Check Chess I think white is much better and black has a very difficult game...

Pedro Martínez:
2 ideas:
A) Checkmate one Maharajah (or 2 if possible).....
B) Capture both Maharajah's (with check being valid or not).......

I don't know which is better.....

Pedro Martínez: capture you and the other maharajah

Pythagoras: What would be the goal of the game for the black if there were two maharajahs?

Yes they are fun, but after a while they become boring as the result is always the same......Why don't you change Maharajah a bit: Just add one more Maharajah.........! 15 seconds or 1-2 more lines of code.......

kkkeeek: Yes, that's true :-) I didn't say all games on BrainKing were balanced. But they can be a good fun for beginners.

For black, must lost.
For more exciting, i think, must plus 40 or more pawns for black. ( 32 pawns are too few! )

For white, maharajah must lost absolutely.
I think it must be exciting if black side has only 8 pieces and none of pawns.

thank you all for your help,

we agreed draw now and will soon start a regame, so everything is fine now ;-)) best wishes, doerdich

Doerdich:

Sorry, it was my mistake.

But just from my point of view: The right discussion board for that would have been the German speaking board.

Another reason only (and only) to play here.

Andre Faria: kewl.. just send all infos needed to my pm box.. hehe..

Doerdich ....I went and gave you the draw in our loop chess game, because I pity people that don't know the rules and then want out, too many people fear that first blemish ...hehehe... but what bothers me ? your claim (on a Forum) that if you had underpromoted to a bishop you would have won...I'm happy to play on this nice site and happier more for the (blocked users) feature...

ScarletRose: LOL, sure you can :))))))))))

Andre Faria: hey.. can I use your paypal account and do some shopping??

Doerdich: Yes, the problem was obviously caused by the German translator. Sorry. I've removed the deceiving text.

Doerdich: Well, I think you should ask the person who translated the BK into German why he added his own rules there and didn't just translate the site. Look at any other language version and you won't find anything about crazyhouse.

Hi, then I find it a bit irritating that in the rules the name "crazy house" is mentioned! Fischer-Random-Chess e. g. also has many names (Chess960 and so on), so how can somebody know that loop chess is not the same like crazyhouse? Is it possible to abort this game, I am a queen down. I dont like loop chess at all because if I had chosen a bishop I would have won now...

Backoff: I know. But loop chess is not crazyhouse chess.

I think he is talking about loop chess.

Look into the rules:

"...Spiralschach (aka "Crazy House" oder "Einsetzschach" oder auch "Tandemschach" aber hier nur 2 Spieler)..."

Doerdich: This is not a crazyhouse chess.

In my first crazyhouse game, there occured a big mistake in my view: I pushed a pawn to the 8th rank and chose a queen, then my opponent captured the queen, and then he got a second queen to put in! This is definetely wrong because in all Tandem games and Crazy house games I have ever seen pieces which are chosen by pawn promotion will count as a "pawn". Otherwise this game would not be playable with two sets of chess pieces. Please change it quickly and let me abort my game, thx! (If not, next time I won't promote a pawn to queen, but e.g. to a knight, but this doesn't really make sense at all) Best wishes, Doerdich

Purple: OOPS!

playBunny: Even worse is accepting a draw in a game you were easily winning because of a careless button. I did it TWICE!!!

pauloaguia: Lol. I don't know how many times I've pressed the Accept button after writing a decline message! . Maybe it would help if they were lightly coloured in green and red.

You should have dclined the invitation ;)
Well, then what are you in for?

i think i messed that up! i meant to send you a message saying that i wasn't much for chess, and then the game came up anyways! lol

ArtfulDodger: On the top left corner of your screen you'll see a red (1), meaning you have a game to play... just click the one and we'll go from there ;)

wellywales: why would i log out?

ArtfulDodger: LMFAO

hello everyone! i'm new here and trying to find my way around! any help would be appreciated!

pauloaguia: Ok Paulo, I will do that if Pay Pal does not work. Thanks once again... :)

Fencer: Yes, with Visa. I will try to open a Pay Pal account instead. Thanks...

Andre Faria: Are you trying it with a credit card?
Actually, I am not happy with MoneyBookers because their policy of accepting payments seems to change several times a year and many people complain about it. The only workaround I can suggest is to use another way of payment [as a Portuguese resident you can open a full-featured PayPal account].

Andre Faria: I always use PayPal, never had any problems with it...
I believe pgomes had some trouble with his subscription as well and he was trying to use Moneybookers... he ended up directing his payment through me, if you want to do the same just PM me...

nobleheart: i enjoyed the images very much .but i`m a city man & wouldn`t know a fern frond if i fell over 1. i also have some optical illusions if anyone is into that. also principles & formulae .anyone ever read the third eye books .you stare at a pic & it becomes 3 dimensional as your 3rd eye processes the image. mook53lhd

What is happening with moneybookers? I´m trying to renew my membership since 13/9. Moneybookers even debit my credit card in 2.56 € for fees, but not the 16 € for the membership. Is anybody else having problems in activating the account with moneybookers?

Ferjo: You guess right.

Fencer:
Ok, thanks. Guess we have to get use to.

Ferjo: This is correct, the formula is already fixed, but the full history will be fixed as of 27th.

What happened to the pontuation system? No I'm not talking about rating. If you see the date post its still 19 not yet 20 (Tuesday).
I'm refering that there are games that i call balanced ones which means I get points if I win no points add or remove if I draw and I loose the same amount of winning points if I loose (seems fair). Today when i checked those games again that I'm currently playing I see theres a unbalanced distribution I earn 3 points if i win, going to loose 5 points even if I draw!?!? and will loose 13 points If I loose the game (more than 4 times from if I win). And the BKR difference between me and my opponent its within 200 points. This happens in the past when it was a bigger diference like more than 400 points. Is this correct? Is this a new pontuation system?

"GotChe" Problems undoubtly prevent a lot of games spreading across all of the game sites.

Card games would be a good addition.

Is there any plans in the making for some card games in the near future or would that be impossible to do at the moment or would they be already copyrighted that it would be impossible w/ problems Gothic Chess imposed?

I've deleted a few off topic posts

yes harley sorry.

Princess Alison shuts gob.....again!!!

PLease take this to general chat.