If it was up to you, what rules would you add to chess?
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Feb 28, 2025
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If you get stalemated, you win, if you repeat a position for the 3rd time, you lose, of there are 50 moves with no pawn moves or captures, black wins, if you time out, you lose regardless of material, if there is insufficient material, black also wins.
No more draws!!!
No more draws!!!
pawns can capture forward
Frankly, if I return to earth in 10,000 years, I expect chess to be either gone, or to still not have changed. 😐
The last big change was around 1500, when we finally made bishops and the queen work like they do today, and ever since we added castling and en passant, and played around with the stalemate rule a bit. Since 1880, when en passant became official, the chess game stayed unchanged.
So it seems we reached an optimum of sorts, a place that is not easy to move from. Besides, the change to the bishop and queen was huge. It was a completely different game before that point.
Many have tried to "improve" the game since. The best attempt was probably chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess or sometimes freestyle etc. Nobody really thinks that the next step of chess though. Its a different game that mixed things up and introduces some nice variance. And they say the longer a chess960 game lasts, the more it turns into regular chess. So its still sort of a confirmation that chess as it is defined since 1880 is sort of an optimum, allowing for an extreme amount of possible combinations, and allowing for an enormous depth in understanding the game.
Chess is more likely to change than Go, but I dont think either game will ever be changed. Only maybe someday forgotten. Because mankind has ended, or because the sun turned too hot, we lost earth and travel the stars and past knowledge gets just lost.
just add anything