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Anonymous wrote on Wed, Aug 13, 2003 02:14 AM UTC:
http://cashton.homeip.net/ubd/

Bear wrote on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 11:28 AM UTC:
The University of Tasmania Physics club way back in the early 1990s was a
place for all kinds of misfits and bearded eccentrics dressed up in full
star trek outfits or medievil battle costumes.  Bughouse (known as
transfer chess) was a popular game (along with double monopoly etc) and
was sometime played with six people.  A variant of this called Queue
transfer simply meant that the pieces captured were placed in a queue and
could only be used by the partner in that order.  Double king transfer
was
another variant in which both enemy kings had to be captured.  A team
could
have its first king literally taken. This led to some very amusing
senarios
including a player losing all his pieces yet still being in the game! 
Another variant would get all the points from captures that could be
tallied and converted into any piece.  A knight was worth 4 points
because
of its ability to attack unopposed.  An interesting variant would be to
introduce variant pieces into this equation.  ie rook + bishop =
chancellor.

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