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Bn Em wrote on Thu, Nov 4, 2021 01:58 PM UTC:

stalemate is virtually non-existent

Given that there are no asymmetric pieces, I wouldn't be surprised if it were impossible to even construct a stalemate position (any piece on the outside of a cluster could simply move away). Meaning that King capture is in this case almost completely equivalent to conventional rules with Stalemate a win; the only remaining difference being that here mutual checks (with the exception of undefended kings checking each other ofc) would be legal, unlike in most games with checking rules.

I'm quite a fan of legal counter‐checking myself, though ofc I rarely get a chance to play chess that way as it's foreign to most people. Istr it was explicitly given a name as a Modest Variant but I can't seem to find that anywhere; oþoh games where mutual check is established in the setup position but may not be mutually resolved(!), such as Prisoner's Escape or (Phase 1 of) Frolov's All‐round King (as well as Parton's Contramatic Chess which has, as George Duke pointed out, two mutually‐checked Anti‐kings) have cropped up occasionally.


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