Casablanca Chess: What historical position would you feature?

Wind · 2024-05-16T15:25:33-07:00

This upcoming weekend we'll have a rather unique event: Casablanca Chess. Featuring a double round-robin format with a 15+10 Rapid time control, you'd guess it could end there, but there's a twist: All starting positions are handpicked from historical games. To add "some cherr

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Green_Sleeves

May 20, 2024

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Wind wrote:

Green_Sleeves wrote:

Wind wrote:

Green_Sleeves wrote:

I thought this was Capablanca chess 😆 Which is a chess variant on a 10x8 board hahahaha

Any Fantasy pieces?

Yeah, it has two fairy pieces: Chancellor (rook-knight hybrid) and Archbishop (bishop-knight hybrid). Chess.com actually features a version of Capablanca chess, called Gothic Chess.

Oh that's awesome! Those pieces mixed in with Knight are super strong right? I remember also seeing one which was Queen+Knight hybrid, now that's scary...

Yeah, the chancellor has the same material value as a queen, and an archbishop has a value of 7. Pretty powerful pieces.

The queen-knight is called an Amazon, and I personally think it’s way too overpowered to set foot on a chessboard 😆