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Extinction chess. Win by making your opponents pieces of one type extinct. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Peter Aronson wrote on Sat, Sep 7, 2002 07:33 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Actually, this game can be found in the standard Chess ZRF that comes with Zillions.

Javier wrote on Tue, Dec 17, 2002 03:46 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Extinction chess can also be played at www.itsyourturn.com. And yes, the standard Zillions chess ZRF also has extinction chess. Great game!

Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, Dec 4, 2003 04:40 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
The game is an interesting leveller of pieces. The way that Pawns become important in their own right rather than just as promotands is a particularly big change. How would the rule behind this game affect play in games with unequal-army arrays?

📝Antoine Fourrière wrote on Mon, Apr 12, 2004 07:48 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Can one castle under or through check, now there is no check?
(Zillions' own zrf keeps castling as usual, but it's no proof,
since their zrf for Berolina Chess has no en passant.)

Filip Rachunek wrote on Sun, Dec 19, 2004 09:56 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
This cool game can be also played on <a href=http://BrainKing.com>BrainKing.com</a>. There are almost 2000 finished games of this variant.

Fabrice Liardet wrote on Mon, Jan 10, 2005 10:14 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I am not 100% sure about how castling should be handled. The game carries
very natural notions of check (last piece of a kind under attack) and
checkmate (unavoidable check). So castling under check hurts the eye a
bit, unless one has a second (promoted) king. But if one forbids castling
under or through check, one should also forbid castling when the rook is
attacked when it is the only rook on board. I played correspondence games
in the NOST association and there castling under check was allowed, as
Wayne Schmittberger recommends.
Still, I would rather recommend to disable castling completely. But of
course, the inventor gets precedence over my opinion :-)
One must be conscious that another feature of not wanting to talk about
check and checkmate is that stalemate becomes a win for the stalemating
player, because the opponent is forced to commit suicide. This one
doesn't bother me at all, since I dislike the stalemate rule anyway.

George Duke wrote on Fri, Feb 4, 2005 06:11 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
'DEF,LargeCV': Excellent ideation, average playability. (The
extinction-notion could apply to those CVs >71 (or >79) squares, the
subject matter of this cross-thread.)

Austin Lockwood wrote on Thu, Apr 7, 2005 03:33 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I have just added Extinction Chess as a playable game on the correspondence chess/chess variants server <a href='http://www.schemingmind.com'>SchemingMind.com</a>. I haven't played a full game yet, but am looking forward to doing so!<br><br>I couldn't find an email address for Mr. Schmittberger anywhere, and would like to check with him that he doesn't mind me having Extinction Chess on SchemingMind.com - if anyone here knows how he can be contacted I would be grateful for this information.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Austin

Adrian Alvarez de la Campa wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2006 05:39 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Extinction Chess is a great game of course, but the shorter games it usually provides made me think of combining it with Brotherhood Chess, a slower-than-normal game.

Anyway, here's the Game Courier preset I made for this.


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