Doubt that black would get a stalemate...add 30 seconds to 5 minute odds to this!
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Yeah. I think time-odds might be the only way for black to stand a chance but it should be a fun variant nonetheless.
White should get a lot less than 30 sec to give black a chance. This is checkmate in just a few moves: 1. e4 ... 2. Qh5 ... 3. h4 ... 4. Rh3 ... 5. Rg3 ... 6. Rg6 ... 7. Qh7 ... 8. Rg8#. Doesn't matter at all what black plays (as long as he plays legal moves).
Feb 17, 2016
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Though I think it a few steps improved from your Castle-less variant, I really don't think this game is much a variant as it seems more a mere chess excercize. I've already seen dozens of these in my cute younger days of learning Chess.
We already know that Black will lose, because there are too many ways for White to so-easily doom Black's King. It's the equivalent of playing "Squash the Slow Pill Bug!": if you accidentally put the Pill Bug in a physical configuration where your fingers cannot reach it, the Pill wins. (What moron*** with the intelligence to know and understand Chess would not have the mind capacity for the simple task of squashing a Pill Bug? Unless you put deliberate effort to lose, maybe for laughs?...)
Albeit, for a Chess excerize, it's a pretty neat one. Sometimes, for those beginning learners, it's frustrating to end up in stalemate; but hey, it teaches them well!
***Thi statement respectfully excludes the mentally handicapped; many of whom, despite their disability, get by in this world and become more than productive, loving and caring citizens
A slightly more interesting version of this idea is 'The Maharadja and the Sepoys'. There the lone black King can also move as a Queen or a Knight. That makes it a bit more difficult to checkmate it. But the method to do it is basically the same: white just develops his pieces in a fixed sequence of moves, keeping each of them protected at any time, only pushing Pawns to squares that he already attacks (so he can be sure they are empty). Until he covers every square on the board.
Hre are the rules--one side has only one king, the other side all the pieces. Rules otherwise are simple though if the side with the one king forces a stalemate, he gets a win!