This game is being played under Loser's Chess rules. Click the 'info' tab for more information.
1. b3 e6 Clock started on 08/16/2007
2. Ba3 Bxa3 3. Nxa3 Qg5 4. g4 Qxd2+ 5. Qxd2 f5 6. gxf5 exf5 7. Qxd7+ Nxd7 8. e4 fxe4 9. Nf3 exf3 10. Bg2 fxg2 11. O-O-O gxh1=N 12. Rxh1 b5 13. Nxb5 a5 14. Nxc7+ Kf7 15. Nxa8 Nb6 16. Nxb6 Bd7 17. Nxd7 a4 18. bxa4 Nf6 19. Nxf6 Kxf6 20. c4 h5 21. a5 Rh6 22. Rd1 Rg6 23. Rd6+ Kf5 24. Rxg6 Kxg6 25. a6 h4 26. a7 Kg5 27. f3 h3 28. a8=R Kf4 29. Rg8 Kxf3 30. Rxg7 Kf4 31. c5 Kf5 32. c6 Kf6 33. Rg1 Ke7 34. a4 Kd6 35. Rd1+ Kxc6 36. a5 Kb5 37. Rd5+ Kc6 38. Rg5 Kb7 39. Rg6 Ka7 40. a6 Kb8 41. Rg7 Ka8 42. Rg4 Ka7 43. Ra4 Kb8 44. a7+ Ka8 45. Ra5 Kb7 46. a8=R Kb6 47. Ra1 Kb7 48. R8a2 Kb6 49. Rb1+ Kc7 50. Rc2+ Kd8 51. Rb4 Kd7 52. Rd4+ Ke6 53. Re2+ Kf5 54. Rd8 Kf6 55. Rf8+ Kg7 56. Ree8 Kh7 57. Re7+ Kg6 58. Rff7 Kh5 59. Re6 Kg4 60. Re5 Kh4 61. Re4+ Kg5 62. Rfe7 Kf5 63. R7e5+ Kf6 64. Rd5 Kg7 65. Kd2 Kh7 66. Ke3 Kg7 67. Kf4 Kh7 68. Kg5 Kg7 69. Rd7+ Kh8 70. Kh6 Kg8 71. Rh7 Kf8 72. Rg4 Ke8 73. Rd4 Kf8 74. Rhd7 Kg8 75. Rh7 Kf8 76. Rg7 Ke8 77. Kh7 Kf8 78. Rg8+ Kf7 79. Rd7+ Ke6 80. Rgg7 Kf6 81. Rd6+ Ke5 82. Rgg6 Ke4 83. Rg5 Kf4 84. Kg6 Ke4 85. Rdd5 Ke3 86. Rgf5 Ke4 87. Kg5 Ke3 88. Rfe5+ Kf3 89. Rd6 Kf2 90. Rf6+ Kg2 91. Re1 Kxh2 92. Rg1 Kxg1 93. Rf1+ Kxf1 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 Suicide.
1. 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.
2. Game hints
While the game shares many concepts with Suicide, 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 cleanup maneouvres one must consider any checks happening in the process.
Beware of locked up pawns, loosing them can be untrivial task.
Natural way to win is to loose all the pieces (except king), forcing mate is very difficult.
3. Example games
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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 Information: 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.
- 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.
- Download Game: This button will allow you to download the game in PGN format.
- Copy Position: This button will copy the position to your clipboard.
- 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.
- Analysis Board: This button will show the Analysis Board (see above).
View this article in the Knowledge Base.