List of Waterloo 2017 players:

1. BattleChessGN18

2.Vickalan

3. IvanKosintsev

Welcome!

Thank you for answering all questions. I think I understand all rules now!

Pawns that reach the 8th rank move like a king (they are promoted to spy). (9th or 10th rank doesn't matter because the promotion already happened).

I look forward to starting a game soon

edited out and tansferred to Vickalan's new thread

(And in case anyone thinks anything inappropriate about the Joker, that's supposed to be a hippocampus, and that opposite color thing at its front is one of its fins; like the one he has on his back and on his tail. What better humorous "Joke" is a half-horse half-fish? )

Vickalan, make your move.

Hi BattleChess, thanks for posting the diagrams.

I'll play 1...g8g7

(normally I use the notation which only shows the piece destination, not the origin. I'll try to get in the habit of using your format).

I started a new thread (here) for this game.

See you there

I'll join the tournament too.

The open intercontinental and international World Championship by knockout system

WATERLOO 2017

Rules of the game:

http://chess-checkers-go.blogspot.com/2016/12/waterloo-5th-edition.html

Time control: 3 days per move, 1-2 days are desirable.

Please publish your game in own topic! This topic for a common discussion and for tutorial games.

What's banned and means a disqualification:

1. Any trickery with messages.

2. More then three note mistakes.

3. Impolite and brutal talk (abuse etc).

List of Waterloo 2017 players:

1. BattleChessGN18

2. Vickalan

3. IvanKosintsev (free)

4. LXIVC (free)

Welcome!

Please register here (12.01.2017 - 31.05.2017)

Round 1 - BattleChessGN18 (white) vs. Vickalan (black)

result: 0-1; won by resignation

game type: blunder (that's what ChessMaster would have called it, anyways O.o)

Gentlemen!

Keep firmly in mind that our aim number one is to find new players. Beginner hasn't any desire to wait. He must have the choice of partner.

This is tradition for chivalrous tournament.

In addition we have legitimate right to play or to wait until 31.05.2017.

List of Waterloo 2017 players:

1. BattleChessGN18  (is out)

2. Vickalan  (round 2)  game(1,(1,2),2)

3. IvanKosintsev (free)

4. LXIVC (free)

Welcome!

OK, that's fine. In the meantime, if either of you (or anyone) would like to play in a "warm-up" game of (Amsterdam Medieval Chess) let me know. It has the same pieces as Waterloo, but just not as many. It can help anyone learn about the new pieces, and tactical strategy. If either of you would like to play me in this (outside of this tournament of course) just let me know.

Attention!

It's my debt of honour to warn chess amateurs of all world (especially young people) that the topic "Amsterdam Medieval Chess - Waterloo Training Camp" is a devilish political provocation! Please never go to it.

I'm sorry.

(Tim Kretchmer)

Why must we eat hooikaas in Amsterdam's mouse-trap if we can eat graskaas in Brussels?

In the winter, one must look hard to find graskaas, even in Brussels.

Duke care and attention:

"One Lieutenant Obert, in the 1870s, designed a variation of Chess where the new piece was the Guardian, which was a Fers-mover Wazir-capturer; an inverse Berolina Pawn, if one wishes, with the array:

R Gu Kt B Q K B Kt Gu R

Another game in which the new piece was not so overwhelmingly powerful as to unbalance the game, but was more powerful than the rather weak Guardian in the previous game, was Greater Chess, designed by one W. Day in 1942, with the array:

R Kt B Dk Q K Dk B Kt R

the new pieces being Dukes, which could move like a Queen, except only one or two spaces in each direction. This piece is known as the Mammoth or Mastodon in some recent Chess variants.

Of course, if adding a very powerful piece to the board shortens the game, at least it adds excitement, which brings some interest. The variations that add only pieces of limited strength, even if they are worthwhile, do not have that in their favor. As the Duke would seem to be stronger than a Knight, however, that game seems particularly well-balanced."

(from http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0502.htm)

I already said that everyone can use any possible Waterloo design. The archaic or futuristic designs are also possible, if of course you have a fever to play.

It's a nonstandard design of Renaissance chess from https://www.chessvariants.com

The open intercontinental and international World Championship by knockout system

WATERLOO 2017

Rules of the game:

http://chess-checkers-go.blogspot.com/2016/12/waterloo-5th-edition.html

Time control: 3 days per move, 1-2 days are desirable.

Welcome!

Please register here (06.04.2017 - 31.05.2017)

Registration for the championship of Waterloo 2017 is over.

Not so many chess players volunteered to fight for the Olympic ideals, but they exist, and this is inspiring.

If Mr. LXIVC is ready, we can start second semifinal.