>you digital half-wits ain't never gonna have this kind of experience sitting behind a digital board representation of 1010101 on a computer monitor, despite thinking y'all are hot shiznit with all your analysis and lacking skills in basic humility, humanity and self-serving heuristics
lol what
it means hes a douche
LOL. You'd make a good stand-up comedian.
HEY....i am new to this club....so...by the way...what r these clubs for???
I've seen a second king placed on the board many times in bughouse OTB -- and done it myself many times. It means the game is over, but more importantly it highlights when a player is oblivious to what was happening on his partner's board. Placing the king is like an in-joke between the other three players to poke fun at the 4th player not paying attention.
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I just posted the following note to the Bughouse wall...
"Rules don't matter in Bughouse. I've been check-mated by a King taken in a legal move over an ended game (OTB). Such is life. Play-on."
Previously, I started a Forum Post... "Ethical Chess (Bughouse Topic)"
Experience 1:
While in the DFW (Dallas / Fort Worth; DFW is the airport designation in the USA) area sometimes circa 2010 -to- 2012, I went to the Dallas Chess Club (City of Dallas and County proper) to try and watch top-level games. This is when I was actively studying chess. (It is, or was, segmented into an upper area of higher level players, and a lower area of lower-rated, younger players. I'm not younger, but, needed to start-out downstairs.)
In the course of this experience, I found myself having to resign a game to a very young player.
How do I articulate this experience? I'm not a good chess player. I just like playing chess. So, yes, I'll play against anyone. And I got my ass kicked by some kid mid-tournament. (USCF Rated.) This kid was all of 10 or 12 years old, and I'm a 30-something-year-old player.
In any case, I tip my king, knowing the game is lost, based on the way the kid is moving, and the way I have to think.
The kid has absolutely NO CLUE what I've just done. He's never seen someone resign a game in this fashion. His father (nearby) has to explain to him: "You won." And then the kid shakes my hand.
I get to say that.
I get to say I provided some young & dumb kid his first experience with an opponent tipping their king. (As if this is somehow improper resignation procedure; correct me if I'm wrong; it's what I know, it's what I've been taught; I tipped my king and offered my hand in resignation of a lost game.)
This experience was as important to me as an experienced chess player, as it must have been to see a kid completely confused about what my action meant. I've never seen someone so confused over something so basic.
Experience 2:
Most of the time, I spent my time at the Tarrant County Chess Club (Fort Worth, Texas is in Tarrant County, West of Dallas County / Metro).
This is where I learned to play Bughouse.
In the course of one of my early Bughouse games, my team member's game was lost.
My team member's opponent dropped a piece I gave-up, took my team member's King, and set it for my opponent to place. (Game Over.)
But, I was a NOVICE to Bughouse semantics, still concentrating on my own game, still trying to process instructions given to me by my much more experienced team member (who had now lost; the shouting to move / take a defensive piece queued in memory).
I'm almost check-mated as well.
And then comes the drop.
WTF is this? That's a King? How can you drop a king there? Is it an accident or misplacement? (A queen, maybe, am I check-mated?)
And I glance-over at my team member's board to realize that his King is gone from the board from the drop I saw in my peripheral vision not 3 seconds before (a piece I gave-up no less than 4-5 seconds before).
Where the king should have been was a hole which was an obvious check-mate. The king taken, and, my team member's opponent moving a piece into the spot where the king was as I was processing the fact that kings can't come within one square of each other.
I got check-mated by a King.
(And it was fun. It was a fun learning experience. And you digital half-wits ain't never gonna have this kind of experience sitting behind a digital board representation of 1010101 on a computer monitor, despite thinking y'all are hot shiznit with all your analysis and lacking skills in basic humility, humanity and self-serving heuristics.)
This, because, there are no rules in Bughouse, aside from wasting time trying to tell people to play by the rules while you lose.
Good luck with those "draws" a select few of you covet. You are Elders and Kings among us good'ol'average chess players.
No Aesop's Fable, No Allegory.
Sorry. There's no point behind this other than random observations after reading the "draw" (partner) thread. In combination with already existing observations that individuals so experienced and objective should already have... if they truly have objectivity and experience. Then again, nobody likes reading these kind of thoughts and observations to process for their true meaning, observation and intent. (We'll leave it up to the reader to decide how or what you want to think about and process and/or respond, etc.) Analysis or highly-rated introspective positional play isn't everyone's game across various walks-of-life.
Sounds good. But, implementation is never perfect. You can't please everyone.
DRAW! Partner. (Walk 10 paces first, please.)