LOSING CHESS

A variant of chess. Capturing, if possible is compulsory, including the capturing of the KING which has no royal power and may therefore placed on a square adjacent to the adversary’s King. There is neither check nor checkmate in this game, and the player losing all his men, or being stalemated wins. Pawns may promote to King.

White to play and win (Han Kluver and Karl Fabel, 1947) 1. Ke4 (1. Kf4 Qa6 draws) Qd8 (forced) 2. Kd4 and wins.

“Chess is the struggle against the error.” Johannes Zukertort
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him. Veselin Topalov
2016
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively. Mark Dvoretsky
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort. Mikhail Tal
1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so. Veselin Topalov
2016

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LOSING CHESS

LOSING CHESS

White to play and win (Han Kluver and Karl Fabel, 1947) 1. Ke4 (1. Kf4 Qa6 draws) Qd8 (forced) 2. Kd4 and wins.

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