[Retros] Erics off-topic idea

[A J Mestel]

These are not flaws, as I see it, but the rules do need clarification.

I would suggest that all pawns should be treated as kings, and the nortmal 
checking rules apply to pawns.

So to answer the points below

1. Yes
2. A checknate or stalemate still occurs if there is no legal move not 
allowing a pawn to be captured.
3. It is a win, just as in ordinary chess. If I capture a king that ends 
the game, although conventionally the game ends the move before.
4. Yes - this is great fun - it's so hard to construct proof games. The 
only way a pawn can legally be removed from the board is by promotion.
5. I don't see any other problems.

Here is a game. I'm doing it blindfold so I may have done something 
illegal...

1 e3 h6
2Ba6+ bxa6
3 Nf3 Bb7
4 c4 Qc8
5 c5 Bd5+
6 a3 Be6
7 Nd4 Kd8
8 Nxe6+ (check to the pawns not to the king!)
......dxe6
9 Ra2 Nd7+
10 c6 Qb7+
11 cxb7 Rc8
12 bxc8=Q+ (to the pawns!) Kxc8

and at last we have removed one pawn from the board.
I would have to think about how many pawns can legally be removed - it 
takes a lot of captures!

   Best wishes,

       Jonathan

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, tregeryefim at aol.com wrote:


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> Topic: "a chess with a pawn captured win rule".

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> There are numerous flaws with this kind of chess. Some are below.

> 1. The one Joost de Heer said (Is a treat to capture a pawn like a check...)

> 2. Is a checkmate (stalemate) still in a effect?

> 3. If a side captures a pawn AND this leads to a stalemate is this a win or a draw?

> 4. Is the check of the legality of a position in a effect?

> The offered position is illegal in the orthodox chess, but is legality needed? Imagine the position where a pawn has been definitely captured earlier. Is it illegal in this kind of chess? (assuming the pawn captured immediately stopped the game)

> 5...

> Anyone offering new kind of chess cannot simply refer to the orthodox rules. He should define new strict rules! (or avoid obvious conflicts with the orthodox rules).

>

> Thank you, Yefim Treger.

> 09/14/2012

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