Drawback Chess

Anyone else have experience with this? I discovered it just today and decided to take a look at it. The game was pretty amusing, for the most part.

My drawback was Pawn Battle: "If you ever have fewer pawns than your opponent does, you automatically lose."

This didn't bode well for me when I had to "blunder" my knight to avoid losing too many pawns. Fortunately, I managed to capture enough hanging pawns that this became negligible. In fact, it turned out my opponent had something much worse.

"Drag: Your queen moves like a king, and you lose if it is captured."

So, while I was down a rook, thinking I was losing pretty badly, it turned out I was definitively winning! (And ultimately, I did win.)

I'm looking forward to more games to see what other kinds of silly drawbacks there are. Trying to figure out why your opponent seemingly made a huge blunder out of nowhere, or wondering why they're playing a certain way, is even more fun than it sounds!

Update: I played a second round.

My drawback was "Religious Dispute" (if opponent moves a bishop, then I have to as well)

I lost on move 8 after my opponent sacrificed his bishop on f7 💀

True Gentleman - Can't capture queens. Not that they needed to. 💀

These kinds of rules make you rethink the value of your pieces and force you to play in unexpected ways, which can be both frustrating and incredibly fun.

You bet. I played a game a few days ago and my drawback was "Monkey See: You can only capture with piece types that your opponent has captured with."

It made the game almost unplayable (for me) until I'd already lost quite a bit of material.