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DaLeBe3

chess.com,

why is there no racing kings?

it is such a nice variant

please add it,

DaLeBe

formation:

Martin1262

personellement je n'aime pas cette variante 

PawnPusher1536
Pourquoi non?
Martin1262

c'est nul (la variante)

jdcannon

Can you tell me more about this variant? I don't know the rules and this is the first time I have heard of it. 

RacingKingsKing

ABOUT Racing Kings (RK) is a chess variant. The objective of the game is to move one’s own king to the last rank and do it faster than the opponent. RULES All pieces are positioned at the first two ranks and both players see the board from the same perspective. The starting position is the picure above Standard chess rules apply, with the following restrictions: • It is not allowed to attack the opponent’s king. The concept of check is entirely forbidden. • The king is not allowed to move to a square which is attacked by an opponent’s piece (just like in standard chess). The game is finished if one player moves their own king to the last rank. However, if white moves his king to the last row, and black moves immediately that their king to the last rank, the game is draw (in order to compensate the fact that white player started the game.) Rules page on lichess. SITES ● Lichess.org

jdcannon

Hmm. We do plan to add more variants. I will see if we can get this one on the list. 

RacingKingsKing

jdcannon If you would add racing kings  you would bring a great comnunity to your server. We are organizing a Worldcup at the moment on lichess.org and we are planing a Bullet league as well.

https://lichess.org/forum/team-racing-kings-wc/the-new-rkwc?page=1

https://lichess.org/team/racing-kings-bullet-league

jdcannon

Cool; Let me know how many people end up playing in your worldcup for racing kings. 

RacingKingsKing

We wanted to make it with 32 players but then there were 34 players, so we decided to make 2 qualification games.

fernandorisofsolisburgos

https://lichess.org

fernandorisofsolisburgos

https://www.chess.com

fernandorisofsolisburgos

https://www.chess.com/play/computer

binomine
jdcannon wrote:

Hmm. We do plan to add more variants. I will see if we can get this one on the list. 

Race Kings is on the variant server.  It's just that there are less people on the variant server. 

If you go to Play -> Variant. Then select "other" you can play it there. 

https://www.chess.com/variants/racing-kings/

fernandorisofsolisburgos

https://www.chess.com/variants/racing-kings/

ChessOfficial2016

Giving Check or Moving into Check is an illegal move in Racing Kings.

ChessOfficial2016

Similar to King of the Hill but you have to move your king to the 8th rank to win.