Suicide Chess

Suicide may be problematic from a moral point of view, but Suicide Chess is fun! Suicide Chess is a chess variant that is very different from Wild Chess versions. In both Regular and Wild Chess, the major purpose of the game is to checkmate your opponent's king. But in Suicide Chess, the major purpose is to lose all of your pieces ... even your king! Both Regular and Wild Chess follow roughly the same rules, but Suicide Chess has many different rules.

You win the game if ...

• You lose all of your pieces before your opponent loses all of his/hers.
• You have no legal moves to make and have fewer pieces left at the end than your opponent does. The type of pieces remaining makes no difference. If the number of pieces is equal, the game would be drawn.

• Castling is not permitted.
• If you can capture an opponent's piece, you must do so. If more than one capture is possible, you can choose which one to make. Note: If you try to make a non-capture move when a capture is possible, you will be told "You must capture."
• Treat the king as if it were just a regular piece. There is no check or checkmate. The king can be captured. And you can promote a pawn to a king (yes, it is possible to have more than one king at a time).

How to start a Suicide Chess game

• Challenge someone directly and specify suicide in the type field.
• Advertise your interest with a seek ad with suicide specified in the type field
• You can also use examine mode by issuing the command examine b suicide

A short tip on strategy

A basic concept is the initiative, and to keep it. Try to force your opponent into a series of captures without you making any (many) captures yourself. For this reason, beware of having your queen in the open during a sparsely populated board position since it can easily be forced to capture pieces one after the other. For this reason, many players prefer to lose their queens as soon as possible, and promoting a pawn to a queen can be disastrous.

SPECIAL NOTES:

• If you do not want to play Suicide Chess games, you can set up a formula to automatically decline match requests for Suicide Chess.
• Special computer accounts are available which play suicide
• Suicide Chess games are denoted in 'games' and 'history' listings by S (capitalized).

See Also:
What type of game do you want?
suicide_chess - Command line help