Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid

Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid by qsort on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:30PM (#34371880)

Also true for some other little rules people often forget, like underpromotion, castling through/out of check, stalemate, perpetual, 50 moves, etc.

Plus the general topic of how to use clocks.

Chess is so popular that most people first learn to play from parents, relatives, etc., so they might not have learned the full rules if they aren't interested in learning the game more seriously.

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Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid by unsafecast on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:23PM (#34372595)

You say underpromotion, but something people are surprised by is making a second queen ime. People sometimes assume promotion is actually "taking a captured piece back".

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Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid by SamPatt on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:01PM (#34376584)

Very understandable how this developed in the era of over the board play. You can't have two queens when they don't physically exist!

I always use an upside down rook, somehow there's always one available by then.

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Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid by unsafecast on Saturday January 14, 2023 @04:10AM (#34378669)

I end up using a checkers piece, since pretty much every board I've played on has them.

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