| Win by losing all your pieces. Capture is mandatory.
p.
- 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.
+ 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.
-p Captures are mandatory, but when several capturing moves are possible you can choose.
+p.
+ Captures are mandatory, but when several capturing moves are possible you
+ can choose.
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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).
+ Pawns may promote into king (so you can potentially have several kings on
+ the board).
h3 More information
| A starting point can be the
a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_Chess") Wikipedia page
| . Note: this variant has several names, we choose here the same as
- a(href="https://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/suicide_chess.html") on FICS
+ a(href="https://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/suicide_chess.html")
+ | on FICS
| .