ravikuma@umn-cs.UUCP (02/26/86)
This is in response to a question on chesskers. It is just the game of checkers played with chess pieces. Some of the important rules to be observed are: Use only pawns and minor pieces as men (so there would be less confusion when kings are around). In the initial assembly, take care to have the pawns on the bottom ranks, giving opportunity for the minor pieces to be eliminated as men, and most important of all, replace the minor pieces by pawns whenever possible.
franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) (03/04/86)
In article <12100002@umn-cs.UUCP> ravikuma@umn-cs.UUCP writes: > This is in response to a question on chesskers. It >is just the game of checkers played with chess pieces. There was a game written up in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American at one point (60's?) which I am fairly sure was called Chesskers. It is played on the squares of one color on a chess- or checker-board, using both chess and checker pieces. I believe the initial setup is as follows: B K K N M M M M M M M M - - - - - - - - m m m m m m m m n k k b The men are checkers men, and the kings are checkers kings. The bishop is an ordinary chess bishop. The knight is called a cook; it moves three spaces in one direction and one at right angles (unlike the chess knight which moves two and one). I may have the knight and bishop interchanged. I think the object, as in checkers, was to deprive one's opponent of any legal moves (usually by capturing all his pieces). I don't remember the details of the rules, such as whether men can be promoted to any piece or just kings, or whether and in what cases pieces are forced to capture. Frank Adams ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108