If You Could Change One Rule In Chess, What Would It Be?

I would change the tournament rules on this site. The default should require an established rating and an account that is more than a month old.

Newcomer tournaments should be offered as special cases, not the default.

In Xiangqi, pawns only move 1 square at a time.

You can play Xiangqi and Operation simultaneously.

In Operation, if your tweezers touch the electrodes, you'll get zapped by a 9V battery.

Iffy.

Who is repeating?

The chaser or the chased?

It exists. In sparring.

When I spar against the computer or a person, I allow 3 take backs in a game.

This rule exists in Renju.

I'm wary of injecting genes from other games into chess.

My idea for chess.

Chess as a triathlon.

1 game of Western chess.

1 game Chinese chess.

1 game of Backgammon for a tie-breaker.

Flip a coin for Western chess. The one who moves 1st in one form of chess moves 2nd in the other form of chess.

There’s even better suggestions. For example:

People have tried chess with more pieces, bigger board, more combo pieces for centuries.

It has never took off. None of it ever surpassed Fide chess..

Xiangqi, Chinese chess is remarkable because it kept the same gene of having 16 pieces.

Per capita, Chinese chess is more popular than Fide chess.

Burmese chess exists. You can place the pieces anywhere behind the infantry.

This idea did not surpass the static starting position of Chess and Xiangqi.

I would change the rule about the castling. When your in check, you can still castle (but you still can’t if it’s a place you get mated)

Isn't that in Shogi?

You can put captured soldiers back on the board?

The Shogi pieces are not colored. (It don't matter if you're black or white. - Michael Jackson).

You are English centric.

A - H is universal as they are Latin alphabet.

What about German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc.

Figurine algebraic is language-less. It goes back to the concept of Chinese glyph.

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1. Descriptive is intuitive.

But there are other considerations. Universality. North-South orientation.

2 sides having different names for the same spot is real.

The Battle of Bull Run to the North, the Battle of Manassas to the South.

Two sides having different names for the same spot is real.

The Battle of Bull Run to the North, the Battle of Manassas to the South.

2. That's why there are numbers and letters on the sides of the USCF vinyl boards.

@Seth_Isaac

Historically, any side can move first.

It is only in the last 200 years that fixes (not move, not not correct) White to move first.

@Jessicamel

Historically there is no "touch move" rule, until the "touch move" rule is established.

Historically, pawns only move 1 square, so no en passant.

@lindabell4

Historically there is no castling. Castling was invented.

@Ziadrizkalla

I have Logical Chess - Chernev in Descriptive and then Algebraic.

1 step pawns

no castling

exists in Xiangqi.

You cannot make a rule to un-make a rule.

It's kinda like "once you go black, you can't go back" kinda rule.

You guys are not observing the "once you go black" rule.

Xiangqi.

The King is confined to a 3 x 3 area, like a goalie.

The elephants cannot cross the river, like the defenders in Lacrosse.

It's very viable.

The end of the world as we know it? put a peanut at random and prohibit the entire troop from stopping at it -Sorry for spontaneously creating peanut chess right now.

No they asking other people what they think

Why answer for them let the other people answer first if you just want to see opinions

I would make a rule that FIDE rated games must not start before 11 am local time.

I would make a rule that FIDE rated games must end by 9:00 pm local time. The chess world’s discrimination against morning people oppresses me.

Honestly, a rule that should be changed is checkmating the opponent. One reason is long range checkmating. It would be such a game changer if you could put a bishop in the corner of the boar and the king in the other and it counts as a checkmate!

That's all I have to say today! Bye!

there is a rule according to which if a player refuses to shake hands before the match he is to be declared as loser...

i would like to change that rule