Variant of chess

[Philippe]

It is played on a 7x5 board

White :
A1 : rook
B1 : queen
C1 : king
D1 : knight
E1 : bishop
A2 B2 C2 D2 E2 : pawns

Symetric for Black.

Castling only wiht the sole rook of course. No prise en passant. Always promote to Queen. If stalemate, the player loses.
[img]http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9851/chesspj3.jpg[/img]

[Cubeman]

I like the stalemate and the player that can't move loses idea.To me that rule in classical chess was probably created by losers, or politically correct people since they think that it is not the persons fault when they can't move.You can see similar things happening in the justice system.To me it is your own fault if you can't make a move and you should lose.I wonder if there would be more decisive games if this old rule was changed or would people be too cautious and avoid sacing even a pawn because it was too risky.

[Ovyron]

To me it is your own fault if you can't make a move and you should lose.

I recall that the original rule from a game from which chess was based was that the staledmated side wins the game. I think it's a punishment for not being able to mate, even when the opponent doesn't even have legal moves to continue.