This game is being played under Loser's Chess rules. Click the 'info' tab for more information.
1. f4 e5 Clock started on 2/25/2008
2. fxe5 Ba3 3. Nxa3 b5 4. Nxb5 Qh4+ 5. g3 Qxg3+ 6. hxg3 a5 7. Rxh7 Rxh7 8. Nxc7+ Kd8 9. Nxa8 d6 10. exd6 Rh3 11. Nxh3 Bxh3 12. Bxh3 f5 13. Bxf5 g6 14. Bxg6 a4 15. a3 Nc6 16. d7 Kxd7 17. Be8+ Kxe8 18. Nc7+ Kd8 19. e4 Kxc7 20. e5 Nxe5 21. d3 Nxd3+ 22. Qxd3 Nh6 23. Bxh6 Kc6 24. Qf5 Kd6 25. c4 Kc6 26. Qc8+ Kb6 27. Qb8+ Ka6 28. c5 Ka5 29. c6 Ka6 30. c7 Ka5 31. c8=R Ka6 32. g4 Ka5 33. Bd2+ Ka6 34. Ba5 Kxa5 35. g5 Ka6 36. g6 Ka5 37. g7 Ka6 38. g8=R Ka5 39. Rd1 Ka6 40. Rg7 Ka5 41. Qb5+ Kxb5 42. b3 axb3 43. a4+ Kxa4 44. Ra1+ Kb5 45. Ra4 Kxa4 46. Ra7+ Kb5 47. Ra4 Kxa4 48. Ra8+ Kb5 49. Ra4 Kxa4 White win
Ever feel like winning is too much work? Then try losing! In Loser's chess you must try to get checkmated, or else lose all of your pieces! How hard is that? Try it and see.
This is less popular, but interesting, variant of Antichess.
Game rules
The game is played with standard chess pieces, starting from standard chess initial position. The pieces move and capture as in standard chess. Castling is allowed.
The aim of the game is being checkmated (in standard chess sense), or losing all the pieces (except the king).
The following rules are in place:
- you are not allowed to put own king under the check,
- if your king is under the check, you must react; if it is possible - by taking the opponent piece, if not - in any way you like,
- if you have legal capture, you must make it; if many captures are possible, you can choose which one to make.
The rules are applied in order given above (so it is more important to escape from check, than to capture).
A draw is by agreement, not by 3-fold repetition or the 50 moves rule.
Stalemate is a win for the stalemated player.
Game hints
- While the game shares many concepts with Antichess, it is noticeably different. Your king will remain alive and active until the very end of the game! King sacrifice is not possible, and while calculating the clean-up manoeuvres one must consider any checks happening in the process.
- Beware of locked up pawns, losing them can be untrivial task.
- The natural way to win is to loose all your pieces (except your king), forcing mate is very difficult.
Game Page Help
The Action Bar
The Action Bar is the most important part of the game screen, this is where you interact with the game by entering moves, conditional moves, comments, draw offers, resignations, and much more (if you are not viewing one of your own games, the Action Bar is not shown). The Action Bar is in four parts, from left to right:
- The Move Input Box: where your move or conditional move is shown; it is possible to type into this box, but not recommended, you can enter your move by dragging and dropping the pieces on the board.
- The Action Selection Dropdown: this is where you select the action you want to do, for example, move, enter a comment, accept a draw offer, claim a draw, etc. Only the actions which are relevant to the current game are shown.
- The Continue Button: this button sends your action back to our server; sometimes you might see a pop-up text box before the action is sent, this is so that you can write a message to your opponent. You can set your preferences so that this box is always shown to confirm you move (under the "Chess Board" tab "Confirm moves before committing), some people find this helpful as a "blunder check".
- The Next Game button: clicking the button will take you to the next game for which it is your move.
The Game Information Panel
Under the Action Bar, you should find the Game Information Panel. This gives you more information about the game; because there is too much information to see on one screen here, it is arranged into "tab"; you can move between the various screens by clicking the buttons, from left to right:
- Game Overview: this tab shows the full history of the game, including comments (you cannot read the comments from another player's game, unless the game is marked as "public"), leave taken, etc. You can click the moves to see the position on the chess board.
- Hide Comments: this tab shows the moves of the game only, without the distraction of the comments shown on the game overview tab.
- Material Balance: this tab shows the captured pieces in the game. If you are playing CrazyHouse chess, or a similar game, you can drag pieces from here to the board to make a "drop".
- Tags: You can "tag" games, this makes it easier to come back to games, you can find the games you have tagged from the game database screen.
- Variant Information: this tab is available for some chess variants, it will show you a description of the variant.
- Opening Book: In standard chess games, this tab will show you information about the chess opening you have been playing, taken from the Game Explorer.
- Analysis Board: Opening this tab will overlay an "analysis board" on the main chess board; you can move the pieces around freely on this board to try out various ideas in the game.
- Engine Analysis: This tab allows you to analyse the game using a chess engine; because the use of engines is not allowed on SchemingMind, this tab is not available for ongoing games.
- Share: The share tab will allow you to share your game on social media (if someone becomes a member by following one of your links, you will be rewarded with a complimentary extension to your full membership); you can also download the game as either an animated GIF or in PGN format, and you can copy the current position to your clipboard in FEN format.
- Help: If you are reading this, you have already figured out what the help button does!
The Chess Board
The chess board shows the current position in your game; if it is your move, or if you can enter a conditional move, you can drag and drop the pieces on the chess board.
If you wish to castle, simply drag your king over the rook on the side you wish to castle on. When you promote a pawn, you will see a pop-up prompting you to select the promoted piece.
We have a number of different designs for chess boards and pieces, you can select the one you prefer from your personal preferences.
Under the chess board is a navigation toolbar (this toolbar looks slightly different if you are looking at the analysis board).
From left to right:
- Settings: This button will bring up your chess board and pieces display settings.
- Move to Start: This button will show the start position of the game.
- Previous Move: This button will move position shown on the board back one move.
- Next Move: This button will show the next position on the board.
- Last Move: This button will show the current position on the board.
- Flip: This button will show the board from the other player's perspective (by default you see games from White's perspective unless you are Black; you can select an option to always show the board from White's perspective in your personal preferences).
- Animate: If you are not looking at the last move in the game, this button will animate the game from the shown position to the last move.
- Stop Animation: This button will stop the animation.
View this article in the Knowledge Base.