Question about the rules for the "Drinks" chess va

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Question about the rules for the "Drinks" chess va

Post by jesper_nielsen »

Hi All!

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! :D
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Re: Question about the rules for the "Drinks" ches

Post by sje »

Neither side drinks the pawn; instead its contents are used to fill the equal size reservoir of the replacement piece.

An accurate computer simulation of a drunken chess player would have the program, when losing, grab the physical board and throw it. A more exact simulation might first piss on the board and the opponent as well.

I believe that there is precedent for this at the human World Championship level.