Game that can last forever

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acgusta2

I was playing a game of crazy custom position, and forgot to turn off the game of points for 2 player

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/29983467/124/1

We both tried to go for a draw by repetition involving a combination of draws and piece captures, however since each time we captured a piece the number of points we had would go up so that repeating the same position on the board wouldn't count towards 3 fold repetition as the total number of points wouldn't repeat.  It was also clear that the 50 move rule wouldn't end the game as pieces would get captured every few moves.  The fact that we would both get points when capturing a bishop would mean that the relative number of points we would each have would tend to just oscillate, so neither of us would actually make progress.  I think it should be changed so that crazyhouse game of points can't go on forever as seems to now be possible.

blunderyourqueen-NOW

i mean if u don't capture it's easy to draw by repetition, right?

MrXX2018

That's why 4pc crazy won't exist. You showed how 2 players can easily farm points

acgusta2

@MrXX2018 It's already possible to play Crazy FFA thoughttps://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/30082387/0/1

I chose to play with the bots as I was impatient to wait for humans to join.

I do feel like the point system might encourage teaming in Crazy FFA though, however I feel like Last Man Standing could be a viable option for Crazy FFA since players that trade pieces don't lose material compared to other players the way they without Crazyouse, meaning that Last Man Standing might not create a boring game when combined with Crazyhouse the way it would without Crazyhouse.