Okay,this is the 1st chapter of my tutorial(hopefully this is not auto-removed),and this is basically about gamerules. tada---what did I say ugh? Anyways,let's start -

In this chapter,we are talking about The hardest gamerule (in custom variants) - Giveaway. After reading this,you can learn:

The basics of Giveaway and how to use it
How to flow it with more gamerules
How to create a whole variant by using Giveaway
Bad examples of giveaway usage(or combination with giveaway) and how to fix them.

Giveaway,aka "Anti-chess". When possible,capturing is compulsory. First to lose all pieces or stalement wins.

Giveaway is a gamerule that make players forced to capture anything they see when possible. When giveaway is enabled,there is no royals, stalement always wins,so n-check cannot work, and there is no checks or checkmates. The default promotion is =QRBNK, and custom promotion do not accept K ppromotion (it turns into QRBN in any cases).

In game of points,The 1st out(winner) gets 600 pts;2nd : 400pts;3rd : 200pts. Each piece capturing gives its owner 3pt.

Regicide(Capture the king) and Duck Chess do not work when any king was captured or threatened,but KotH still end the game when any king reaches the hill.

How to use?

Note that you must capture any pieces that can be captured,even that is your own. Also spells are not included if you don't cast them(even jump spells makes you can capture one immediately).

Giveaway is the only gamerule that can reverse the result of the game,where original "lose all pieces" becomes a win. This could including more things,as the creator want players to balance 1) defend themselves to prevent them to force to capture and 2)threaten every hanging piece,and make sure they are able to capture their pieces.

In a giveaway game,the pieces' values are strange: Kings worth more than Queens. Then RB,N,P. To fairy pieces, pieces with jump abilities(eg.ACG) worth more on attack,and short-ranged ones are able to trap.

So, pay special attention to the word 'compulsory'. Then... Your pieces should defend one another well,and have enough materials to either attack or defend. One example is Clobber,where you have to keep as more wazirs(to continue capturing chain) as you can to stop your opponent from hill rushing. Let's see how it work-

The wazirs are supposed to capture each other. Once one have no legal capture by wazirs,the player is force to capture the room and giveaway the win. Have a guess - if there is no Giveaway rule,what will happen? Yeah,this will be drawish infinity tradefest because no-one want to lose(so they do not capture the rook).

Because capture is "compulsory",it give some chances to the one who was not having more materials. So,you know that

Without any other gamerules -Giveaway makes players chasing each other,where it's a game about trying not to eliminate enemies.

(This will be updated soon-at least I hope it wil be...)

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