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Introducing a new variant: negotiation chess[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Hans-Peter Stricker wrote on Mon, Feb 28, 2022 11:23 AM UTC:

At Chess StackExchange I proposed a new chess variant: chess with negotiation. To sum it up:

When one side (white) is to move, it publicly offers a number of possible moves it considers to make next. The other side (black) must give his reactions on these moves as promises. After this step (the "negotiation step") white chooses one of its offered moves, and black must react as promised. Then black makes its offers and so on.

To make this variant specific the maximal number n of possible next moves has to be specified. n=1 is just standard chess, but n=∞ would work as well. Considering n=2 would be a good starting point.

This variant bears more similarities with actual "warfare" where negotiations play a role.


Ben Reiniger wrote on Mon, Feb 28, 2022 03:50 PM UTC:

After white negotiates its move with black's response, if black gets to negotiate next then black will have two consecutive moves (the reaction to white's, then their own proposed move), so it seems n=1 is not quite the same as ordinary chess. Or have I misunderstood the proposal?


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