In the chess variant "Drinks", the pieces are actually shot glasses, and whenever you make a capture, you must drink the contents of the glas! Simple!
But what about promotions?!
Is the contents of the pawn poured into the promotion piece?
If not, then the promoted piece presumably is filled with a new drink, but then what happens then to the pawn?
Should you drink your pawn?
Should the opponent drink your pawn?
The reason i am asking is that i am planning to include the "Drinks" variant to my chess engine, basically making it play gradually worse, the more pieces it has captured!
At first it seemed like a simple enough problem, namely just counting the number of opponent pieces, and reduce the strength accordingly! But then I started thinking about this promotion issue...
A whole other issue is the relative volume of contents the pieces contain. Clearly a queen does not contain 9 times the amount of a pawn. On most pictures i have googled, the volume appears to be roughly the same for all pieces.
Kind regards,
Jesper
P.S. Another idea could be to gradually pollute the hash table with scrambled entries!
