Crazy Chess

 

Crazy Chess – Game Rules

Crazy Chess plays in the game which is called Loosing Chess, Suicide chess, Take me chess, or Giveavay chess. The objective of the participants is to get all of their pieces captured. This is a chess variant game where the goal is to ‘lose’, i.e. to be left without pieces or moves. It’s crazy, isn’t it? Losing Chess is getting more and more popular, many players discover the beauty and the deepness of this wonderful game! Loosing Chess is very popular game among the children who like to play in chess.

Losing Chess has several variants. Crasy Chess includes three of them.

Stalemate = Win

The traditional rules, which are also greatly preferred by most strong players, follow:

All the rules of normal chess apply, with the following exceptions:

1. Capturing is compulsory.
2. The King plays no special role – it can be taken, put or left ‘en prise’. Castling is available.
3. Pawns can promote to any piece (including the King).
4. The player wins if he cannot move, i.e. he has no pieces left or his pieces are stalemated.

There is one more exception in rules for the boards 6×6 and 7×7: on its first move Pawn may step forward only one square.

Stalemate = Draw

All the rules of the traditional Loosing Chess apply (see Stalemate=Win), with the following exception: the player wins only if he has no pieces left. In case of stalemate the game is drawn.

The variant is played in AISE, the Italian Chess Variant Association. It is known there as VINCIPERDI.

Stalemate = Count Chessmen

All the rules of the traditional Loosing Chess apply (see Stalemate=Win), with the following two exceptions:

1. In case of stalemate the win for the player with fewer chessmen (pieces and Pawns).
2. No castling is allowed here.

These rules are a bit unusual, but quite acceptable. They have been invented on the FICS-server, the server with the highest Losing Chess activity.

Crazy Chess Features

Initial position: In CrasyChess you are allowed to select 3 types of initial position:

Standard position: It means that on the board sized 8×8 all pieces stand like in traditional chess. Initial position on the boards 7×7 and 6×6 have a special standard.

Random position: All Pawns stand like in traditional chess while the pieces location is defined randomly by the computer.

Every time you start the game, computer generates a new position for pieces. Pieces of both sides are always arranged symmetrically.

User position: Here you can place manually any pieces on any empty squares of the chessboard. Thanks to this option, Crazy Chess can solve Loosing Chess problems.

Crazy Chess Levels

The Play mode incorporates 7 levels of difficulty. The difficulty of a particular level depends on three factors: the size of the board, the number of half moves (plies) a computer personality looks ahead while thinking (fixed depth), and the time alloted for a game. The more size of the chessboard, the more difficult is the game. The higher the difficulty level, the less time you and computer have for a game. At each level you will be offered a total of 5 games. You will not be promoted to the next difficulty level unless you have won 3 out of the 5 games at the current level.

In the Training mode you may choose any playing strength level of the program, using the options Fixed depth and Time control. If you wish to use Crasy Chess as a solver of Loosing Chess problems, set up a Fixed depth on 15 and Time control – on unlimited (***).

System Requirements:

PC: Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/Vista