Can you play chess with two queens on one team?
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Continuing the discussion from SHIP IT NOW culture produces shit like Discourse:
i'm not in the habit of sacrificing my queen. ;-)
So, I'm your queen, and you're my queen… and how does that work in chess?
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Converting pawns.
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Oh.
Forgot about that.
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I thought you could only convert a pawn to a piece you didn't currently have.
Nope. I was wrong.
That was an old rule from centuries ago.
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So, I'm your queen, and you're my queen… and how does that work in chess?
@aliceif is right, you can't start the game with two queens but you can gain more throughout the course of the game.
up to a theoretical maximum of 9, but to do that you need to have an opponent who is basically trying to help you get the queens
i've rarely seen more than two queens on one side in competitive chess
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up to a theoretical maximum of 9, but to do that you need to have an opponent who is basically trying to help you get the queens
And actively avoid trying to win the game while you accumulate queens.
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I thought you could only convert a pawn to a piece you didn't currently have.
You choose the piece. No rule involving what's already in play or not.
Nope. I was wrong.
That was an old rule from centuries ago.
Hanzo'd again. That's twice today.
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And actively avoid trying to win the game while you accumulate queens.
this too.
i wonder what the most number of queens on one side was during all recorded competitive chess games? I would be shocked if it was more than 3 (because with three you've basically won already)
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(because with three you've basically won already)
Unless you take the idiot ball back.
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Back in high school, we'd play a custom version of team chess - two players on each side, two chessboards, two chess clocks. If I'm black, my partner was white, or vice-versa. [INB4 race comments of any kind here. ] When we captured an opponent's piece, we'd hand it off to our partner who, in lieu of moving a piece on the board, could place any partner-captured piece anywhere on the board. You would win by either:
- You or your partner checkmates their opponent
- You or your partner captured the opponent's king
2A) Yes, you did not have to say "check" when you open an attack on the king, to allow this.
2B) If you were check-mated but in the process they left their king open to capture, you can capture their king and snatch victory from them! - Your or your partner's opponent's time flag fell and you called them on it (too late if they did 1 or 2 on you).
3A) Always fun to do this when your opponent calls "mate in one" or some such statement and you point at their clock. Look on face = priceless.
That kind of high-pressure chess playing was awesome. 2 queens on one player's side was common.
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Bughouse chess!
The one thing I miss about the good ol' ICC.
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When I was in university we would play something very similar to that, but without the clocks and with some restrictions on dropping captured pieces:
- You couldn't drop a captured piece on the turn that it was captured, so you couldn't just sit there waiting while your partner got you a piece that you wanted for that turn. Any pieces your partner captured would only be available on your next turn.
- You couldn't drop the piece in the front or back row.
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That was fun, indeed.
Long ago for me, though.
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accumulate queens.
I'm sure there's a joke here...
accumulate queens like Davie Street?
*shrug*
Filed under: Vancouver. BC, not the stupid one in Oregon...
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I'll note that you fixed the location, but not the assertion that it is, in fact, "stupid".
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It's not my fault that it's on the wrong side of the Columbia river.
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Every time I play chess with my gay friend, he's starting the game with two queens.
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Bughouse
From the Wiki: The game is usually played at a fast time control; this, together with the passing and dropping of pieces, can make the game look chaotic and random to the casual onlooker; hence the name bughouse, which is slang for mental hospital.
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hence the name bughouse, which is slang for mental hospital.
That's a new one on me; I'm more familiar with the term 'nuthouse'.