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watcha

This is a Horde chess position. Rules are the same as in normal chess except the side with normal pieces wins if all pawns of the opposite side are taken. Pawns from the back rank of the side having only pawns can advance two squares on their first move.

Usually my Horde games are either easy victories or go wrong in a dramatic way. Nothing in between. But this game I find interesting and very double edged. I really can't guess the outcome now, white to move.

White has a dangerous attack against black king. On the other hand black queen has just started gobbling up the back rank pawns, so if white is not fast enough this may cost them the game.

TurboFish

It almost looks like a hybrid of Chess and Go (of course the stones in a game of Go don't move, but still ...).  This is some wild stuff, much more unusual than the pure "pawn chess" game (K+8P vs K+8P) that I sometimes recommend to beginners who want to improve their understanding of pawn structures.  Did you find anyone to play this pieces vs pawn mob variant with you?  An engine maybe?

watcha

Humans actually play this variant. The game of the OP is a correspondence game against a human.

Current position:

I still very much fear for my king safety, because there are no defenders left around the king and white threatens to make a queen any moment now. Somehow I was too slow to work my queen behind enemy lines. I feel I'm a tempo or two down.

cbgmar

Nice

cbgmar

Nice

cbgmar

Nice

ongoingprocess

I like how pawns promote in chess.