Marfitalu: Well, you want to castle with the rook a8 and kc8, right? "long castling" ... but what about the rook at d8? kicking off own rooks is not allowed :-)

Doerdich: Making theme tournaments in a forced way was a suggestion by me some times ago, but here ... no comment.

We can make a tounament and write in the description that 1.Nc3 must be moved.

You cannot create a tournament. See http://brainking.com/en/PaidMembership

Doerdich: You mean 1.Nc3!? is too strong. Well, I would say: Let us create a big theme tournament to check this out.

grenv: i did not say that atomic chess is unbalance ... my suggestion has the intention to make it more well balanced.

and in my opinion: witn the more pawns it would be easier for beginners

an idea: to make atomic chess a little bit more well balanced it would be helpful to place three pawns (white: e3-f3-g3; black: e6-f6-g6) to secure the weak points f2/f7.

is my idea of "atomic chess pro" silly or not? what do you think?

redsales: thanks (turning red)
I think whe had both our chances in both games ... and did not realized them. so the draws were fairly ...

oh, if we would have played this games in real life ... they would be my most greatest tournament games.

many thanks to redsales for this two amazing fischer chess games:

http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=806880
http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=806881

Although they were drawn the games were a really great struggle. Thanks!

grenv: So in what language are stupid and inexperienced synonyms?
Please, read my posting carefully till the end, and in a context-sensitive way, please.

grenv: I think Chessmaster1000 means "unexperienced" instead of "stupid". I suppose this was a translation problem.
In general: We, who do not have English as native language, have something problems choosing the right word. WalterMontego, isn't it?

since 26. Mai 2005 no posting. hmm, why?!

enjoy :-)

http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=698831

a castled king, which is attacked in "classical" way - g4, h4, opening a line, queen, rook - can be defended by rooks at the "other side (a7, a8) or queen.
i tried sometimes such an attack, but often failed.

as i noticed in my games it seems clear to me that you should take care of following in amazon chess:

1) weak points h3/h6 in flank openings
In flank openings (kings fianchetto; kings indian and so on) it is obviously that the classical battery of Bishop e3+Amazon d2 deadly points to point h6 (and black vice versa). i won some games with this strategy.

2) weak pawns h3/h6
i think you must take care with moves as h2-h3 or h7-h6. in classical castling positon a sacrifice of a bishop/knight and then the upcoming amazon often leads to the single mate by the amazon (as we discussed)

3) exchanging the amazons
exchanging the amazons leads to a "normal" chess, and then the stronger chess player is in advantage. in my opinion weaker chess players should not exchange the amazons in general. one example is one game form me against chessik - i think my opponent made a mistake to exchange the amazons.

4) get out the amazons in the opening
in chess there is a rule in opening - do not let out your queen fast! i think in amazon you cannot say that belonging to the amazon, because the amazon can threat much more than a normal queen.

the fellowship fomento-beraun club needs to players for its anti chess team! newcomers are welcome! tycho and i started to play this game now! :-)

LOL!

In my game against FriendJosh an endgame king+Rook-King occured. My opponent in my opinion defended correctly, staying with his king in the "centre" of "lefr/right" side of the board.

mating with queen is possible. you have to prevent the king going out over the edge. but i think, it makes the time to mate only longer. until the opponent's king is not at the last or first horizontal line he can escape one line back at the other side, ok.

but 2 rooks shoud win ;-)

slowly i am getting the feeling of the threatments of bishops over the edge, but not the pawns, yes, i often forget it! by the way: what about endgames in cylinder chess? can a queen only mate (suppose yes), rook (suppose no).

oh, of course, you are right!

in one of my game against caissus (after 18. move of my opponent) i fall in a nice trap of douple piece attack (attacking my bishop b7 by the opponent's rook at h7 and threating mate at h7) - nice!

yes caissus. it seems that castling is not necessary in cylinder.
i saw some opponents opening with Na6/Nh6 - blocking bishop's lines a1-h6 and f1-a6.

please! with one more player in the fomento-beraun club team the cylinder chess team tournament can start! so please join our fellowship and our team!

i played some games in amazon chess and at first it seems to be mostly similar to chess (because most of my opponents wanted to exchange the amazons).
but against bratr i played the first game in which i really noticed the power of the amazons - with a funny mate! http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=491106