I'm tired of playing regular chess when all you can look foward to are
swapping pieces til the dry endgame comes around and just a few pawns
left to win the game. And since regular chess is memorized til move 35
to 40...why bother playing chess anymore? I've switched to Crazyhouse.
This is the only way to save the game of chess from draw death.
Crazyhouse ensures games are fought to the death and there is almost
always a clear winner. Best of all endgames are now exciting as one can
play pieces one captures to almost any available square on the
chessboard. I wonder what Bobby Fischer thinks of Crazyhouse? And the
funny thing is there seems to be only one chess engine in the entire
market of chess software that plays crazyhouse...Crazyhouse Challenger
and the Winboard engine Sjeng. That's it. I hope Chessbase eventually
offers a version of Fritz that can play Crazyhouse. Now THAT'S a version
of the chess program I'd buy in a minute.

On 21 Jan 2006 18:30:04 -0600, Alberich
wrote:

I'm tired of playing regular chess when all you can look foward to are
swapping pieces til the dry endgame comes around and just a few pawns
left to win the game. And since regular chess is memorized til move 35
to 40...why bother playing chess anymore? I've switched to Crazyhouse.
This is the only way to save the game of chess from draw death.
Crazyhouse ensures games are fought to the death and there is almost
always a clear winner. Best of all endgames are now exciting as one can
play pieces one captures to almost any available square on the
chessboard. I wonder what Bobby Fischer thinks of Crazyhouse? And the
funny thing is there seems to be only one chess engine in the entire
market of chess software that plays crazyhouse...Crazyhouse Challenger
and the Winboard engine Sjeng. That's it. I hope Chessbase eventually
offers a version of Fritz that can play Crazyhouse. Now THAT'S a version
of the chess program I'd buy in a minute.

The free Winboard engines KKFChess and Sunsetter also play crazyhouse.
KKFChess is available at http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.fankk/ and
Sunsetter is available at http://sunsetter.sourceforge.net/

There's also a rules file for the program Zillions of Games that can
play crazyhouse. It's available at:
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/z...id=zCrazyhouse

Tony

I'm tired of playing regular chess when all you can look foward to are
swapping pieces til the dry endgame comes around and just a few pawns
left to win the game. And since regular chess is memorized til move 35
to 40...

More like move 5-15, depending on the line.

why bother playing chess anymore? I've switched to Crazyhouse.
This is the only way to save the game of chess from draw death.

Crazyhouse is interesting, but it's not chess. It would favor anyone with
arcane knowledge.

In article ,
says...
I'm tired of playing regular chess when all you can look foward to are
swapping pieces til the dry endgame comes around and just a few pawns
left to win the game. And since regular chess is memorized til move 35
to 40...

More like move 5-15, depending on the line.

why bother playing chess anymore? I've switched to Crazyhouse.
This is the only way to save the game of chess from draw death.

Crazyhouse is interesting, but it's not chess. It would favor anyone with
arcane knowledge.

I have to disagree here. Have you tried Crazyhouse? Games are over very
quickly if you're not careful. Try the favorite openings like the Ruy
Lopez and you're in for a shock. It adds a whole new complexity to the
game of chess so I must take issue with the suggestion that Crazyhouse
favors people with arcane knowledge. However, I do agree with one thing
though...to play Crazyhouse against an opponent OTB requires at least a
total of 3 sets of chess pieces...and this is from my experience playing
against Sjeng via Winboard.

Of course Crazyhouse isn't "chess" but it uses the same pieces but has a
far more interesting setup based on its rules. I wonder how much larger
the total number of games could be played via Crazyhouse rules. Any
ideas on that?

Alberich wrote:
just a few pawns
left to win the game. And since regular chess is memorized til move 35
to 40...why bother playing chess anymore?
You have obviously NOT been following the Corus Chess Tournament.
Human chess is VERY exciting. Well exciting if you are in to that kind
of thing.

Alberich wrote:
I wonder how much larger the total number of games could be played via
Crazyhouse rules. Any ideas on that?

There are so many possible games of chess that the extra crazyhouse rules
make no difference in practical terms. :-)


Dave.

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I'm tired of playing regular chess when all you can look foward to are
swapping pieces til the dry endgame comes around and just a few pawns
left to win the game. And since regular chess is memorized til move 35
to 40...

More like move 5-15, depending on the line.

why bother playing chess anymore? I've switched to Crazyhouse.
This is the only way to save the game of chess from draw death.

Crazyhouse is interesting, but it's not chess. It would favor anyone
with
arcane knowledge.

I have to disagree here. Have you tried Crazyhouse? Games are over very
quickly if you're not careful.

Primarily because the theory of the game is not that well-developed, which
is bad to the opposite extreme.


Try the favorite openings like the Ruy
Lopez and you're in for a shock. It adds a whole new complexity to the
game of chess so I must take issue with the suggestion that Crazyhouse
favors people with arcane knowledge.

It does. The rules are far different from chess and the theory is almost
nonexistent.

However, I do agree with one thing
though...to play Crazyhouse against an opponent OTB requires at least a
total of 3 sets of chess pieces...and this is from my experience playing
against Sjeng via Winboard.

I would imagine that it would.


Of course Crazyhouse isn't "chess" but it uses the same pieces but has a
far more interesting setup based on its rules. I wonder how much larger
the total number of games could be played via Crazyhouse rules. Any
ideas on that?

Crazyhouse is far different from chess and would not solve the "draw"
problem in chess, because it is not chess.

The easiest way to reduce draws in chess is to shorten the time controls.

Ray Gordon wrote:
Alberich wrote:
Ray Gordon wrote:
Crazyhouse is interesting, but it's not chess. It would favor
anyone with arcane knowledge.

I have to disagree here. Have you tried Crazyhouse? Games are over
very quickly if you're not careful.

Primarily because the theory of the game is not that well-developed,
which is bad to the opposite extreme.

Everything was new once, Ray. And you seem to be contradicting
yourself again. You claim that the theory isn't well-developed but
that the game favours those with `arcane knowledge'. What is this
`arcane knowledge' if it isn't theory?


The easiest way to reduce draws in chess is to shorten the time
controls.

The easiest way to reduce draws in chess is not to play...


Dave.

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