Winning by getting checkmated variant

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acgusta2

I was thinking about how antichess isn't really the opposite of standard chess as the objective of standard chess isn't to capture all of your opponents pieces but to checkmate your opponent.  I think something that could make for an interesting variant is one, with the opposite objective as standard chess, in which you win by getting checkmated.

acgusta2
JkCheeseChess wrote:
acgusta2 wrote:

I was thinking about how antichess isn't really the opposite of standard chess as the objective of standard chess isn't to capture all of your opponents pieces but to checkmate your opponent.  I think something that could make for an interesting variant is one, with the opposite objective as standard chess, in which you win by getting checkmated.

The problem here is that you can't force your opponent to checkmate you, so idk how this would work.

There are positions, in which the only legal move for one player is to checkmate the other player.

For instance in this position if white plays Bb7 then blacks only legal move is Bxb7#

Grayson1e4e6

Ok, but that would be so rare. And there is no way Black would let that position happen.

TheUltraTrap

give it a twist! Goal: lose your king or make the opponent get King of the hill. If you resign, you win (jk).

TheUltraTrap

something like: If there is a check, then you must play it, otherwise capture, otherwise attack. If you are in check you may leave the king where it is, but the opponent can play another check instead of king capture

stupnik_2_0

Something like antichess P4M?

1-c41-0

I think we have to simply play losers chess; captures forced; but not If you are in check and can't take the piece who checks you.

chrisbao

This has already been tested in the past, the end result is that essentially every game will be drawn (at a high enough level). I believe a match between two computers resulted in 499 draws out of 500.