Khoser Pickel
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I'd love to see Kramnik play chess variant called Anywhere C - 2006/12/28 08:40
I'd be interested to see how Kramnik vs Kasparov would go if they played the chess variant Anywhere. In this version, on one board with same setup, each side can move or drop any piece except the king onto any vacant square. The rule is this: to capture the enemy piece the player must utilize the pieces normal power.
For example, in the initial setup...one can move the bishop (either one) to the f4 square (bishops can change color in this variant). Black then attacks the bishop with its rook (any one) by placing it on the f6 square. Now White must move the bishop away otherwise the Black rook can capture the bishop by going Rf4. White can move its attacked bishop to any vacant square on the board. For instance in my example, the bishop can move to b3. But this bishop can only capture using its diagonal power as per its original ability. Understand? Rooks capture by using its normal power...as any other piece can do the same with the original power of that piece in question. The king is the weakest piece on the board as it can only move in one square in any direction at a time. It cannot jump over any other piece or square except for castling which is still allowed provided the squares are vacant and not attacked by opposing pieces.
The only caveat to this variant is that the pawns can't move to the last rank of the opponsing camp to queen right away. Pawns can be dropped anywhere up to the 7th rank as long as the square in question is vacant.
But to promote, the pawns must promote normally. En passant capture by the pawn is still allowed provided the same rule applies to en passant in original version of chess.
Believe me, chess computer software will NEVER be able to master this kind of chess because you have to use strict intuition. And memorizing theory in this variant of chess is absolutely impossible. The number of combinations right from this variant is almost impossible to calculate.
But watching Kramnik play Kasparov in this chess variant would be lots of fun to see!.
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