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- | Win by losing all your pieces. Capture is mandatory.
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-h3 Specifications
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- li Chessboard: standard.
- li Material: standard.
- li Non-capturing moves: standard (when allowed).
- li Special moves: no castle.
- li Captures: standard.
- li End of game: stalemate or lose all material.
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-h3 Basics
+ | Win by losing all your pieces except the king. Capture is mandatory.
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- The goal is to lose all pieces, or get stalemated like on the following diagram.
- The king has no royal status: it can be taken as any other piece.
- Thus, there is no castle rule, no checks.
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-p Captures are mandatory, but when several capturing moves are possible you can choose.
+ The goal is to lose all pieces except the king, or get stalemated
+ or checkmated like on the following diagram.
+ All usual chess rules apply, but captures are mandatory.
+ When several captures are possible you can choose: from the
+ diagram position 1.Nf3?? and 1.g4?! allow respectively 1...Qxf3 and 1...Nxg4.
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- .diagram
- | fen:6nB/6P1/8/4p3/2p1P3/2P5/8/8:
- figcaption White cannot move: 1-0.
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-h3 Special moves
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-p.
- Castling is not possible, but en-passant captures are allowed.
- Pawns may promote into king (so you can potentially have several kings on the board).
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-h3 End of the game
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-p.
- Win by losing all material or be stalemated (for example with only blocked pawns
- remaining on board).
+ .diagram
+ | fen:r1b1kb1r/p2ppp1p/2q2np1/8/7P/7R/PP1PPPP1/RNB1KBN1:
+ figcaption 1.g3 forces 1...Qxc1# checkmate
h3 More information
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- | This is a popular variant, played in many places on the web.
- | A starting point can be the
- a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_Chess") Wikipedia page
- | .
+ | This variant can be played
+ a(href="https://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/losers.html") on FICS
+ | . We follow their naming choice.