Request for Hand and Brain Chess on Chess.com

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K_Simonson

I was thinking that it might be nice to have another variant on chess.com: Hand and Brain. Similar, to Bughouse, users could "pair up" and play a game vs others. When it is their move, the hand would choose the type of piece to move, and then the brain would choose the movement. What do you think?

notmtwain
K_Simonson wrote:

I was thinking that it might be nice to have another variant on chess.com: Hand and Brain. Similar, to Bughouse, users could "pair up" and play a game vs others. When it is their move, the hand would choose the type of piece to move, and then the brain would choose the movement. What do you think?

I think you have it backwards. The brain chooses the type of piece and the hand does the movement.

K_Simonson
notmtwain wrote:
K_Simonson wrote:

I was thinking that it might be nice to have another variant on chess.com: Hand and Brain. Similar, to Bughouse, users could "pair up" and play a game vs others. When it is their move, the hand would choose the type of piece to move, and then the brain would choose the movement. What do you think?

I think you have it backwards. The brain chooses the type of piece and the hand does the movement.

You are right. My fault.

K_Simonson
meggycat wrote:

ooOoh that's a pretty good idea. would people be randomly paired with someone? bc then a player could randomly troll pieces to lower the other person's rating. it would also need a better name xD

It's already a thing, so the name would probably stay the same, since it's been in use for a while.

Lc0_1

You could have the option to use voice or chat to communicate, too. 

glamdring27
meggycat wrote:

the name, i mean. its bland


What do you expect?  It's chess!

K_Simonson
Lc0_1 wrote:

You could have the option to use voice or chat to communicate, too. 

Yes, that's a great idea, and would give us a chance to level the score with **chess.

K_Simonson

yes

dude0812
meggycat wrote:

ooOoh that's a pretty good idea. would people be randomly paired with someone? bc then a player could randomly troll pieces to lower the other person's rating. it would also need a better name xD

Players could have another rating for hand and brain chess, just like bughouse is a different cathegory when it comes to ratings.

dude0812

They don't need to communicate. The hand can have the pictures of pieces displayed on the screen and he can click on a picture of a piece they want to move and the hand gets notified by what brain picked and has to play a move with that piece. I am really surprised that you can't do this online on any chess website.