aabbccdd and I have played a variant of chess called Bughouse Chess in another group before, and I would like to introduce it to this group. The rules are:

#1 4 players and 2 boards, with 2 teams. The boards are set up like this:

#2 Every time a piece is captured, the capturer of that piece gives it to his partner (the other member of the team, on the other board). The partner can then drop it anywhere on his move to make his move.

#3 No dropping pawns on the 1st or 8th ranks, and dropping pieces must land on a blank square.

#4 If one board has a checkmate on it, the loser on that board loses the whole game for the team. Only one board needs to have mate on it for the game to be determined.

#5 Ratings begin at 1200. kid_of_chess is rated at 1220, and I am rated at 1220 also. If you win or lose, the point difference between the two ratings is divided by 20 and added or subracted from your rating. If the other person is the same rating as you, then 20 is added or subracted. Drawn games will equal both ratings being added, divided by two, and becoming the new rating of the player (A 1180 player drawing against a 1220 rated player will make both players' ratings 1200).

Bughouse is not your invention, it already was invented

This is offensive. I didn't invent it; I just wanted to introduce it as a group activity.

Does the captured piece need to be dropped on the next move?  It counts as a move right, so there could be no other move made before or after dropping the piece on the board.  If you don't drop it right away (let's say you're about to capture a queen or something), can you drop it on the following move, or later on?  Or does that piece become permanently lost if not replaced immediately?  I'm guessing this means that all 64 pieces will always be on one board or the other, right?  Could make one of the boards very crowded.

no, the player can wait to drop the piece on a later move.

Also, queens made from a pawn promotion turn back into pawns when captured.

hey, thx Windows! ill play!

All right, choose sides: me=Player 1, Team 1

              |Team 1       |Team 2

Player: 1 |Windows-7_|kid_of_chess

Player: 2 |Tommyohe  |gimmewuchagot

The highest rated are usually player 1.

ill play against u, Windows-7_

Any other registrations?!

id bet jrcolonial98 would be happy to play when he returnes from his cruise

• How are you working it logistically?  Forum posts with the moves?
• Is there a database program that can handle bughouse?  It would be nice to be able to record the moves somehow.  I guess "edit position, insert piece" would work for drops, if all you need is the current position.
• How is time being handled?  When I played this (ages ago) we played it as G/10 or so, so that someone couldn't win by just waiting long enough for their partner to capture the right piece to drop & mate.  That would be way too short for playing it via the forum, perhaps 3 days/move?
  

3 days per move, controlled by an admin. And no, I don't believe there is any bughouse chess software out there.

With jrcolonial98 back, lets start playing.

that bughouse is fun

I played bughouse since I was 8

Then do you register? Please select a team (1 or 2).

how can we play bughouse on here?

can i play?????

game started!

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