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by Jens Bæk Nielsen

Torben Osted and I have played a correspondance game ofchess with changed rules.
It is inspired by the version 'Are thereany?' (Kriegsspiel),and like that version the goal of the game is to come as close as possibleto a real war. To do this, the most important is that you do not exactlyknow where the opponents pieces are! We havecalled this variant for 'darkchess',as you feel like moving in the dark, when you play the game.
The startposition is as usual. The rules are easy if you imagine, thata piece is able to 'see' the squares it attacks and can go to(Torben invented this essential rule for this variant). If you open e2-e4you are told what the pawn can see on d5,e5,f5, and what the bishop andqueen can see on their opened diagonals. For each single move both blackand white are told what they can see.
We have discarded the en-passant move, as it is difficult to handle anddoes not influence the game anyhow. If you have an uncovered piece whichbecomes captured, you are only told that it has disappeared.
The goal is not to mate the opponents king, but to capture him! This meansyou are not told if your king is in check or you put him into check yourself.During castling the king is allowed to jump over an attacked square.
The game is not so serious as normal chess, but quite amusing and exciting!
To run the game we used a third part. It was my wife who acted as gamesupervisor(the task could be done by a computerprogram with passwords for black andwhite. Who makes it?).

Now to the game which was played from 7 nov. 1989 to 30 may 1992, but firstan explanation to the notation of the information given from the gamesupervisor:

1. The empty squares a moved piece can see are not notated at all (blacksfirst 2 moves).
2. A '-' denotes, that no information was given for the opponentsmove (whites first 6 moves).
3. Any information is shown in brackets ().
4. If an opponents piece moves to an attacked square, the piece is shownin brackets (whites 7. move). Similar notation is used for which opponentspieces a moved piece can see (blacks 3. move). Several pieces are separatedwith a ',' (blacks 14. move).
5. If a move for either player opens for a row/line/diagonal of a piece,the information is given after a '/' as shown in whites 22. movewhere he played Ne2-c3. The move opens the view of blacks Ba6, which cansee an empty square at f1 (empty squares are always notated here to assure,that this information was not forgotten).
6. If an uncovered piece is captured it looks as whites 15. move.

To give the right feeling of the game, it is only reported from blacksview (the whole game follows).

White: Torben Osted
Black: Jens Baek Nielsen
1.-,Nf6
2.-,b5
Hoping that white has not played g3 and Bg2.
3.-,Bb7(Pg2)
Still hoping the same! But with the look at g2 I would now welcome thepawn to move.
4.-,a5
5.-,Ra6
6.-,Re6(Pe3)
7.(Bf3),Qc8
8.-,Rd6
9.(Bd6),cxd6(/Qc8-Pc3)
I have made unusual moves to make it harder for my opponent to guess mymoves. I tried to use the rook as a spy and now lost the exchange. Theloss of material is probably not so important in this variant of chess,where information is important. But I had with -,cxd6 got a cramped position,that requires many moves to develop.
10.(Pa4),b4(Pc3)
11.-,Ba6(Ne2)
12.-,d5(Pd4)
13.(Pe4),dxe4(Bf3)
14.(Ne4),Nxe4(Pf2,Pc3)
15.(Ne4 captured),d5(Pd4,Be4)
It is not covered, but white did not know!
16.(e4),e6
17.-,Qd8
18.-,Bd6(Ph2)
19.-,g5
Something had to happen...
20.-,h5
21.(Pb4),Bxb4(Re1)
22.(Nc3/Ba6-f1),Kd7
I feared a capture at d5, as white probably had a rook at the e-file. Themove also cleared the 8. row and gave an unusual placement for my kingwhich might be hard for white to guess.
23.(Be2),g4
24.(Ba6),Nxa6
25.-,Qb8(Ph2)
I had to see if the white queen should arrive at b5 giving check. I didnot bother to cover Na6.
26.-,Bd6(Ph2/Qb8-Pb2)
27.(Qb5+)
The white queen actually came to b5! I had not expected this after whitessafe play so far and realised I could have won with the trap 25....,Qa8and 26....,Rb8.
At this point I felt I had a reasonable position with the plan h4 and g3(hoping white had castled kingside), but white now forced exchange of queensand knew where my king and knight were positioned.
27....,Qxb5(Pa4,Pb2)
28.(Qb5 captured/Pa5-a4),Nb4
29.-,Rg8
30.-,h4
31.-,g3(Pf2,Pg2,Ph2)
32.(Pg3),hxg3(Pg2,Ph2)
33.(Ng3),Rb8(Pb5)
34.-,Rxb5
35.(/Bd6-Ph2),e5
36.(Pe5/Pd5-d4),Bxe5(Ph2,Rc3)
37.(/Bd6-Pb2),d4
38.-,d3(Ne2/Be5-Pb2)
39.(Nc3/Pd3-e2),Rc5(Nc3)
40.-,Bg7
Would lose if white played Rxf7+. I had let my king stay at d7, as whiteprobably had assumed I had replaced it after 27. Qb5+. He probably assumedthe king covered f7. My plan was now to play the bishop to h6 to supportthe pawn to d2. 41.(/Bg7-Pb2),Rc2(Pb2,Ph2)
I assumed white played the knight to d1 and dropped the plan to promotethe d-pawn. But I better move the rook if white had played 41.Ne4.
42.(/Rc2-h2),Bd4
White moved his h-pawn (and has earlier moved the g-pawn), and I cannotstop them. With this move I took a riscy (white could have a rook at f4or more likely e4) look at g1. But of course whites king was not on a blacksquare.
43.-,Rh2+(Kh1,Ph5)
I had a strong feeling, that whites king was at h1. If this chance hadto succeed, it required that
1) h2 was only covered by the white king
2) the g-pawn was not at g3 (or unlikely a rook at f4)
3) white did not know if my bishop covered g1-a7 or h2-b8.
44.(Rh2 captured)
White captured the rook and said he would play his king to h1 next move,so I resigned. He had found it most likely, that I most would have likedhim to play 44.Kg1 and have had the pleasure to play 44....,Bxg1 winningthe game and have fooled him. He is right! But it is still a fifty-fiftychance, as I could have thought he would think so, and have played my bishopto e5 etc.
42....,Be5 had won the game.

Here is the complete game.
1.d4,Nf6 2.Bf4,b5 3.c3,Bb7 4.Qc2,a5 5.e3,Ra6 6.Be2,Re6 7.Bf3,Qc8 8.Nd2,Rd69.Bxd6,cxd6 10.a4,b4 11.Ne2,Ba6 12.Rc1,d5 13.e4,dxe4 14.Nxe4,Nxe4 15.Bxe4,d516.Bf3,e6 17.0-0,Qd8 18.Kh1,Bd6 19.Rfe1,g5 20.Qb1,h5 21.cxb4,Bxb4 22.Nc3,Kd723.Be2,g4 24.Bxa6,Nxa6 25.Re3,Qb8 26.Qd3,Bd6 27.Qb5+,Qxb5 28.axb5,Nb4 29.Ne2,Rg830.Ra3,h4 31.R1c3,g3 32.fxg3,hxg3 33.Nxg3,Rb8 34.Ra1,Rxb5 35.Ne2,e5 36.dxe5,Bxe537.Rf3,d4 38.Raf1,d3 39.Nc3,Rc5 40.g4,Bg7 41.Nd1,Rc2 42.h4,Bd4 43.h5,Rh2+44.Kxh2,resign

© 1997:Written by Jens Bæk Nielsen; edited by Fabio Forzoni; copied from FabioForzoni's WWW pages with his permission.

This game can be played via email onRichard's Play-By-eMail Server.

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WWW page created: June 11, 1997.
Mar 2000: D. Howe added link to Richard's Play-By-eMail Server.Since OS X 10.2 Apple has included a Chess game by default on your Mac. The current version allows you to play against the computer with varying difficultly levels, play against another person, and even play online. You can change the look of the 3D board, hear moves and even speak to make a move. You can also save and resume games.

Check out Play Chess On Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Did you know that a chess game comes with your Mac and it has for a long time. You can find it in the Applications folder, it's right there, or just launch it with Spotlight by using Command space and typing chess. It's a pretty versatile app. It asks you to sign in with iCloud, I'll tell you why later, but for now you can just cancel and skip that. So, you can start a new game and there are several different modes in this chess game. You can do different variations on chess and you can also play human versus human. So you don't need a chess board with you. If you've got your MacBook with you, you can play with the person sitting next you. You can also do human versus computer and reverse the situation there. You can even have a computer versus computer game where they play each other. Now, once you start you can set the number of seconds that the computer thinks per move. The more time you give the computer to think the tougher it's going to be. So you start. Now you just move the pieces as normal. Just drag and drop. Then the computer will make its move and even call it out for you. So you've got this little microphone here and you can even show the moves there so you can see all the different moves. There are a whole bunch of other options as well. So, for instance, you can go into Chess Preferences here and you can set the board to be something different like a metallic board. You can even change it during the game and the pieces as well. Lots of fun options there. You can turn off the speaking moves right there. Even change the voice that the moves are spoken in. You can change the intelligence of the computer right in the middle of the game if you wish. You can even speak your own moves and it will understand you. You don't even have to click anything or hold a key down. It's always listening. I'm going to create a pause hear so it starts listening and speak a move. Pawn E2 to E4. Pawn C7 to C6.There is a bunch of other options as well. For instance you can take back the last move. You can have it show a Hint. You can have it reshow the last move if you missed it. Check this out. You can save a game. So in the middle of a game you can save it and then open that game later on to resume it. So you can have multiple games going at the same time or pause to continue the game another day. Now I mentioned that you can also do multi player and that's what that iCloud sign in was before. If I do New and I choose Game Center Match there, then I hit Start and it allows me to connect with people I'm connected to using Game Center. If you're not familiar with Game Center it is a whole other subject. But it is a nice thing to be able to do. The one last thing I want to show you is that notice that this is a 3D view of a chess board. So you can click and hold any corner of the board and then drag to change the view. You can rotate it all the way around and you can kind of drag it up and down just to get a slightly different view of the board if you want.

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