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This would be fun to try.

Henry VIII chess

yeah ive played age of empires

Man, imagine having this setup and still playing the Bongcloud Opening

this looks like an ad for a mobile game

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Pawn to d...uh...

You're in for the long game, I see.

Does it converge?

Python on the brain ... it couldn’t happen to a nicer language ...

Visual representation of an AE Van Vogt science fiction story

This is terrifying

Great christmas gift

From the moment I understood the weakness of my chess, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of queens.

How do you play that?

Rook to uhhhhhhh *checks notes* Eℵ2...?

I’m taking this personally

The extra text in this one. 🤌

Did your social media started to suggest chess content on the last years, by any chance? I noticed mine was doing that. I guess that chess sells.

When rotated, it becomes an ∞ x 8 board

In fact, a variant could be that you could use your turn to add a new queen to any position on your back row, on a regular 8x8 board. I think the offsides rule would still need to apply in order to prevent hiding the king in a queenblob.

Average gacha strategy game.

Ok, who will be first to show that with a simple prompt an AI can create a playable in-browser version of it?

Talk about a draw by repetition.

Made it more or less real.. chess280.com

is this stratego?

Chess: Cold War edition

This stresses me out more than regular chess...

Hmm off to explainxkcd for this one

Ah, yes. The Queendom.

If I let your queen capture my pawn and then I capture that queen, I get two moves every turn.

Saving this for the moment when I will have a bit of free time so that I could actually code it!

Always a draw in practice, because the time needed to set up the board is longer than the players' lifetimes...

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Fun fact of the day. I just asked ChatGPT the following question: can you play chess? Play a game against yourself, using White, and tell me who won. Guess what happened?

And all the queens are drag queens, armed with massive purple dildos.

Does it have periodic boundary conditions?

without putting too much thought into it you'd probably be wanting to push your d pawn (and b pawn) and send the dark bishop all the way to the h file to release the queens through the diagonals as soon as possible. no idea how well this works and what counterplays black has.

Get rid of all your other pieces. They're useless and just stand in the way. Get more of your Queens in front of your King than your opponent in front of his. All the Queens clash into each other, and in the end you're the one with a Queen in front of your King left.

Do the pawns still get promoted when they reach some row in this game?

Well in the version of Infinite Armada chess I play there are infinite lows of pawns with chess's back row occupying the back row. Getting one of the guys on the back row to move tends to be the most exciting moment of any match.

Yikes!

Confused me. Forking is something that happens in chess games.

How would that even work?

@puzzmo.com don't get any ideas

This is just warhammer 40k

I think this is making me angry

This is just chess with an MLRS.

Or even better, independent of ZFC

I'd still lose

* berserkers

Trench warfare the board game.

Mutually assured chesstruction

I’d play this. I’d play this to the point where it would become a problem.

The only winning move is not to play.

ah, just like iraq

They probably play this in Chicago in the 17776 series.

Modern Company Organization

2 queens vs army of rooks all placed diagonally from each other

Rod Torfulson’s Armada?

Make the infinite armada pawns. When they cross they promote to the piece that starts there (a queen if they cross at the king). Can double move if before starting square. Over time it gets more and more expensive to generate a specific piece.

I'd play. Imagine trying to protect the king. Dear Santa, I hope you're doing well...

Shouldn't you have at least 2 rows of pawns on each side?

Nope. You only have to calculate the board value relative to the initial configuration, and only a finite number of moves have happened at any given moment in time, so it’s only ever a final calculation.

I think the keyword is "naively". You can of course calculate the board value relative to the start, but if you try a naive piece-counting approach, you'll error out. Interesting question is where you'd start the naive iteration, since the board has no corners. Alternate rows from center? Not naive.

It IS still possible, clearly, to activate an infinite number of pieces to foil that scheme, but that would take infinite amount of time to do, and with an efficient representation, weeks or months of effort to even overwhelm a standard phone. Standard level of acceptable compromise in games :)