Oxe5 (Knook captured Knight who just moved to et) Placeholder move. Note there was a typo in the title of this post saying it was open for 11 hours however the top post in 6 hours will be moved.
Ne5. - arbiter has stepped in and made a decision. The other top level comment mentioning 3 rooks has been retracted. Any votes for it don't count as I can't be sure an upvote for it was in response to it being a good question or for the move.
60 mins from now still on the clock for this move and two placeholder moves will be added to next time slot of ask for takeback and Whites 7th move be given another full timeslot.
Kh7 is the default move. Pawn is pinned and cannot capture due to the Knook. King advancing to capture.
Im putting in a default move so game can progress at time, but removing my own upvote so that any one elses move is higher than mine as soon as they make it. For comments with same number of votes, its my discretion however i'm leaning towards oldest move.
Two of the Rooks are actually Knooks and they can move as either a Rook or a Knight. They have the K "Tattoo". They have the piece notation of "O" So the Knook on e3 can jump to capture the pawn on d5. It could also move to capture the pawn on e7 and put the King in check.
Anarchy Chessers were waiting two long for Garry Chess to release Chess 2.0 and started making their own pieces and moves. For a while there was a bit of which is better Knook or Queen discussion on another forum.
Other moves were made like Siberian swipe where Rooks can immediately capture other rooks, Knight boost where an underpromotion to Knight is balanced by allowing the Knight to immediately move, and il Vaticano, Two bishops which have two pawns on squares in between them can swap squares and capture the pawns in between. These moves are not legal in this game.
I forked an open source chess game (dreamchess) and wrote new code to allow promotion to Knooks and this open game is a way for me to help playtest the code changes were correct. I originally tried to complete games at a much shorter timeframe, but posts about moves hadnt fully federated before the time to complete them expired. Blitz didnt work, so ive switched to correspondence times.
To mix things up a bit, i changed the starting pieces so that Knooks replaced the King side bishops who went on vacation. They might be coming back soon. Pawns can promote to Knooks.
Moving the Knight as suggested could be a terrible move (Im like 400 ELO), while it threatens the Knook, the Knook can also legally capture it the next move. And if it does, the pawn could capture the Knook, so i personally can't evaluate too deep, but hope this series of posts can give some more serious chessers something new and interesting to look at.
Bishops from the Knook game visit the board for a daytrip. They touch the squares they're not normally on (Dark bishop goes on light square, Light bishop goes on dark square)
Meta Discussion. Next move is 8 hours because I need sleep. When i kicked this off, i was looking to do two games and have everything wrapped up by around now.
I am happy to continue this game while the community wants it, I will see about doing 3 moves a day. Just after I get up ~9am UTC, Just after lunch and around dinner ~9pm UTC so each side alternates who has the longer break. I am happy to be flexible and open to suggestions.
Ive also had a request to flip the board every time its blacks turn to move and will do that unless i hear strong opposition.
Hopefully this can be turned into a epic game and some titled players choose just one side to play and it turns into a close battle.
After this move is over, i'll make it blacks move with an extended timeslot. (Nearly time to put the Emu's to bed).
I will add a meta discussion comment to the next move as the plan was to have two games today with time increments similar to blitz but moves werent federating and it became unplayable. Last night / this morning i only intended to commit today to this game, but its getting popular and i can commit more days at longer timeslots.
I will ask peoples thoughts on having a multiday game with longer time periods, and I will commit to JPG editing and rotating.
They're coming from screencaps from software where that isnt a feature sorry. I could spin the image, but everything would be upside down. I'll add a task to do this to the programs job board but cant say when it'll get done.
gxh3. Placeholder move.