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Roberto Lavieri wrote on Wed, Mar 15, 2006 11:12 PM UTC:

This variant tries to balance the skills of players. It is a very simple
idea:
A drink can be given to the attacker once a piece is taken. If the
attacker has to drink for every piece taken and for every check, the game
creates a natural handicap for the more skilled player, as he is going to
get drunk faster.
Feel free to add as many variations as the game can sustain.
Use different amounts or just plain different alcohols for different
pieces, and depending on the opponent. As an example, soon you'd begin to
identify the bishop with red wine and the knight with a frosty beer. Put
the strong drink in the queen as a further reward for taking the coveted
most-powerful piece. If you are going to face Topalov, I suggest you
select Vodka for him, and orange juice for you, and amounts depend on the
taken piece, I suggest you must be widely generous with him. You have only
to resist enough, don´t allow a fast checkmate.

Sam Trenholme wrote on Thu, Mar 16, 2006 12:32 AM UTC:

Of course, we need a Mormon (non-drinking) version of this game. How about dice chess; roll a dice to determine what you move. One means pawn, two means knight, three means bishop, four means rook, five means queen, and six means king. Goal is capture of the opponent's king. Castling can be done if either a king or rook is rolled. If you can not move any piece, re-roll.

This idea is hardly original; indeed, here is an ancient dice version of Chess. I have heard it said that Shantraj was once a dice game, and the reason Shantraj stopped being a dice game and became an abstract game is because it was against Muslim law to gamble.

- Sam

James Spratt wrote on Fri, Mar 17, 2006 07:48 AM UTC:

Sh-SHAY, Roberto!!! *hic!*  Th-THAT sh-shoundsh like a WI- *hic!* WINNER!! 
B-but Ah'll B-BETCHA we *hic!* cudnen--cudddnnn--*hic!*--CUDDENT play it
HERE!!  F-F-FERGUSH wud SHMACK ush!! *hic!*  WOONCHOO, F-Fergush??!!??

SSHAY, you call that a Q-Q-QUEEN??!!?? I thought*hic!*hic!!* QUEENZHZH wur
s'pose ta be sh-*hic!* sheckshy!!!....

(THUMP!)

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Mar 17, 2006 03:46 PM UTC:

You could play it here, but the time delays of online play would reduce the
effect, and without being together in person, you couldn't tell whether
the other person was really drinking. Even if you played live with
webcams, you couldn't verify that what the other person was drinking was
really alcoholic, since you couldn't smell it. Now, let me offer as a
modest proposal a variation on this theme. Chess is a mental sport, and
alcohol harms the mind. In physical sports, we could apply this same idea
but harm the body. For example, when someone hits a homerun in baseball,
someone could smack him in the legs with a bat. This would allow minor
leaguers to more easily compete with major leaguers, and it would probably
be very entertaining to spectators.

Thomas McElmurry wrote on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 12:22 AM UTC:

Of course, when you play against Topalov, you will find it very difficult
to defend correctly after he sacrifices both of his rooks.

James Spratt wrote on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 07:11 AM UTC:

No-o-o-o-o, F-Fergush--*hic*--I DON' wanna play basheball with YOU!! *hic*
 (S-Shaint Paddy'll GITCHOO fer that..) *shnicker!!*






*hic!*

Oh, hey, I was at the foundry not long ago and saw a set of
Alice-in-Wonderland chess pieces being cast, and thought how splendid to
use for Alice Chess. (That's all I need, another inspiration!  BUT...)
And yeah, I'm still working on the Paladin pieces, AND Sarang pieces,
AND...

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 11:35 PM UTC:

Ha, ha, ha!. Gracious all your comments.

James Spratt wrote on Sun, Mar 19, 2006 07:36 AM UTC:

Prrrrrrrego!!



*hic!*