Fascinating. Have you actually gotten people to play this? On Jul 9, 2013, at 7:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 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. > > > <Untitled.jpg> > > 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] > > 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. > > -- -- 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. 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