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The concept is simple. Draughts/
Checkers
uses only half the squares on a normal
chess board. Use the remaining empty
squares to play a second
game of checkers/drafts at the same
time.
Victory in Simultaneous Checkers is only
achieved by winning both games. A weak
opponent may focus
more on one game
than
the other to force a draw.
To play a timed game you need 48
counters
(24 black, 24 white), two chess clocks,
one
chess board and a well focused mind (or
two).
Checkers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers
from the Wikipedia. [st3f, May 27 2005]
[link]
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could you double up a chess and a checkers game? |
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Not without substantially altering the rules
of chess. |
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Say what? Just what is this game about? |
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the chess pieces could sit on the checkers if they occupy the same square. |
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the two checkers game - just now fully understood the concept - neat! wish I could double bun the idea. |
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Ooh. I never thought of that. Kudos for
lateral (erm vertical) thinking. It hurts my
head less, though if I only have one piece
on a square. |
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In fact, four players could play checkers on one board, if they played perpendicular games. |
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Brilliant! But you'd have to market it as Xtreme Checkers. |
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and use 4 colors?, [ldishler] |
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This sounds pretty fun. Checkers, though deceptively hard with the right opponent, seems a little flat to me. This would liven it up. |
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We used to play diagonal chess, where all the pieces were lines up in the corners. Needless to say, we never quite figured out how the knight should move. Maybe add diagonal players too. eight colors. Four games. Pure Madness. |
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I can't believe someone gave this a negative. What's not to like? |
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Maybe the idea board them. |
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Brilliant - talk about not seeing the forest for the trees - not seeing half the board for the game pieces! |
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You would only need 2 colors for this checkers game. Since the board dictates the movement via a given color of a square. |
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3D Simultaneous drafts... Let Spock and Kirk play that one and remain fashionable |
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You can make this idea even cooler by introducing a little interaction between the two games in progress. |
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- in some occasions you can make a piece move from one "dimension" to the other by moving it from a white to a black square. Let's say you can do this once for each three pieces you lose, or any other rule (to be playtested, of course). |
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- you can also play two different games with four players; two are playing North+South, while the other two are playing East+West. If you add a rule for "dimension switch" you now have two different checkers games played in two different directions, and sometimes have a player steal a piece from another game. Creepy! |
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This could be named "Quantum Checkers". |
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//moving from one white to one black square//
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A piece that is being kinged can optionally transfer over to the adjacent game's available back home row square as a normal piece. |
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Or, similar to the recently posted "Valkyrie" chess, freshly kinged pieces automatically transfer over to the home row(s) of the other game. |
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This should be combined with functional neuroimaging
somehow .... |
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Earlier this year, four of us played two games of draughts at
90 degrees on the same board. It would probably have
worked better had we not been quite so drunk. |
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