Radical Centrist Chess The game is played on a 10 X 10 board with the pawns and pieces arranged in the corner areas outlined. The objective of the game is to move your King -renamed "Candidate"- into the center area indicated in the illustration. To win, the Candidate must reach the center ( any of the 4 spaces shown ) and not be in check. As in chess, if a Candidate (King) is checkmated, the player loses.
The game can be played by 2 players or 4 players. If there are 2 players, for the American version of the game, one is Democratic and the other is Republican. In this case, each player makes use of two corners to position his or her pieces or pawns -but only one corner will include the Candidate. If there are 4 players, the setup may be as follows : Democrat / Republican / Green / Libertarian. Of course it could be some other party preferences, perhaps Democrat / Republican / Socialist / Constitution Party. If 4 players are involved there should be 4 different colors used for chess pieces and pawns, one color for each player. If this game was played in Britain it might be Labour /. Tory / New Democrats / UKIP, and so forth for the EU, India, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Georgia, Israel, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, South Africa, Tanzania, Jamaica, Singapore, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Burma, Thailand, Micronesia, etc Moves are exactly the same as for standard chess, except there is no en passant or castling, and pawns only move one square. Players are free to modify the rules as long as all players agree to the modifications and none penalize any party or give special advantages to any party on the board. However, this would no longer be Radical Centrist in character if extremist parties of any kind were involved, whether Fascist or Communist or hard-line Anarchists or Islamists or ultra-nationalists, etc. The dotted lines indicate an option for cards. That is, if a piece (not a pawn) reaches one of these squares a card may be drawn from a pack of special cards created for the game. These cards may instruct a player to do such things as return one captured piece to one opponent, or give a player one new pawn to place on any unoccupied starting position in the corner spaces area, and the like. However, one requirement for cards is that half should simply consist of short statements that explain one or another Radical Centrist principle, or positions on issues, or values, or the like. For Radical Centrist views see the many materials available at : [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Some of these RC cards should also explain the views of Independent voters. But the card feature is open to suggestion. Players would need to make cards themselves for their special circumstances and should feel free to be creative. Pieces for the game may be standard chess pieces, but if all players agree, "Fairy Pieces" may also be used, so-called since 1914 to indicate unorthodox pieces such as one that combines the qualities of both a Bishop and a Knight or one that can jump over another piece without capturing. For a full range of Fairy Piece alternatives, see the articles on this subject in many of the past issues of Variant Chess magazine, available for free online. Needless to say, especially considering the early 20th century date for origin of the nomenclature, this has absolutely nothing to do with social issues or politics of the years since about 1970. This is a much older tradition best known from Celtic lore and history, adopted by the chess community for chess playing purposes. This is hardly trivial; there may be as many as one billion chess players in the world. Pieces and pawns can be renamed, if desired, for instance a Queen might become the Campaign Manager, the Bishops might become Attorneys, and so forth. The exact arrangement of pieces and pawns in the corners is open with the following exceptions : Pawns should be positioned in the first diagonal row and there should be 4 of them, the Candidate should be positioned in the far corner square, and the total point value for pieces for each player should be the same. May the best candidate win. Billy Rojas July 9, 2013 -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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