I remember seeing an Alekhine game with five or six queens on the board between the two sides. Was it against Marshall perhaps? Or Mieses? Help me out here, Batgirl.
There can be only one queen
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The purported game was Alekhine vs. Grigoriev 1915 but most sources hold that it is a fake. I believe that the game was real but the 5 queens position would only take place "in the notes" so to speak.
P.S. batgirl was luxuriating in a bat-bubble bath and would not be disturbed.
Just think that the rest of the queens are the king's concubines.
Seems silly to appeal to the pieces as representations of actual battle-objects, since obviously in the real world a queen would be no more powerful than the king.
Dec 10, 2020
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tdeflo wrote:
I'm serious. It's like having two kings, how absurd would that be. Someone should change the rules so that you can only retrieve what has been lost.
The Spartans traditionally had two Kings at once. The Romans traditionally had two Consuls. Many civilizations had polygamy, and thus multiple Queens at the same time.
Dec 10, 2020
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#28
Umm.... it’s a game. In real life bishops and queens didn’t roam the battlefield and castles were immovable.
Dec 10, 2020
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#29
A soldier not being able to make proper battlefield maneuvers is more plausible than a soldier marching into enemy territory and magically turning into a queen, bishop, knight, or castle. How a soldier can transform into a castle is even more implausible than having a sex-change operation and marrying the king.
It is possible in chess but also in real life: gay queens could exist
Dec 10, 2020
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#31
King Edward II had a male lover, but his queen Isabella of France was definitely a woman. Producing heirs was kind of important. I don’t believe there are any examples of a man posing as a woman to be a queen, let alone a man posing as a castle.
Having multiple queens is one of the least implausible
Having multiple queens is one of the least implausible
Congratulations you resurrected a dead 11 year old thread.
Dec 10, 2020
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#33
Well there’s no promotion or queen in Chinese chess so it’s rather a moot point. The objection was to the notion of multiple queens being historically implausible, but that’s only one of many historical implausibilities. We could make a long list.
Well, normally if you are playing a fair match the pawn doesn't get premoted because the other player is smart. So normally this doesn't matter. However, if you are playing an unfair match then you might have two Queens, and that is kind of unstoppable. If both players have two Queens, then that is fair. Most likely if you have two Queens and the other player doesn't, you will win.
If there were to be more than one queen, really what difference would it make to your experience? You don't have to play this version of the game nor do I expect you to, but a little chaos could be fun for those who are just starting out and want to try new things. Strategy is still something that you can use whilst playing although some people would rather just throw that out the window and just have fun. Take that into consideration.
If we were only allowed to promote to pieces captured by the opponent, then the wacky Lasker Trap wouldn't exist. And that makes me sad. :(