1. Subscriber64squaresofpain
    The drunk knight
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    27 Jun '15 02:22
    Anyone here ever played this?
    I've just discovered it, looks pretty interesting and fun 🙂

    You can still win by checkmate but you can also win by getting your King on to one of the 4 centre squares,
    which apparently is worth double points in tournament play.

    Here's a vid of Jerry from chessnetwork playing it:

    YouTube : King of the Hill speed chess

    Get those Kings in the centre!
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    30 Jun '15 06:20
    Originally posted by 64squaresofpain
    Anyone here ever played this?
    I've just discovered it, looks pretty interesting and fun 🙂

    You can still win by checkmate but you can also win by getting your King on to one of the 4 centre squares,
    which apparently is worth double points in tournament play.

    Here's a vid of Jerry from chessnetwork playing it:

    [youtube King of the Hill speed chess]n4lKqcFMuCw[/youtube]

    Get those Kings in the centre!
    Watched the whole video. Never heard of it. Looks like it would be a blast to play though!
  3. Subscriber64squaresofpain
    The drunk knight
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    30 Jun '15 13:541 edit
    Originally posted by King Tiger
    Watched the whole video. Never heard of it. Looks like it would be a blast to play though!
    I made an account on lichess.org just to try out their multiple different variants (there are videos of Jerry playing these also fyi):

    Horde - An army of (36!) pawns vs. a standard chess army... who is better theoretically?
    YouTube : Horde chess


    Three-check - As the name suggests, the first player to give 3 checks in a game wins (any legal check, does not have to be consecutive)
    YouTube : Three-check


    You can play in time controls such as these, but there are even quicker ones such as 2 minutes with no increment.
    I'm really having some fun playing these 🙂 ... best part is, lichess is free!

    EDIT: Oh, and for King-of-the-hill, you don't get double points for getting your king to the centre.
    I had wrongly assumed this, your points per win only double once you are on a streak (at least 3 wins in a row)
    Biggest streak I've had so far is 5 🙂
  4. Subscriber64squaresofpain
    The drunk knight
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    06 Jul '15 23:58
    Played some more KOTH today, starting to get the hang of it,
    in fact today was the first time I managed to finish in the top 3 in a tournament 🙂

    I'll show 2 games, the first being a quick mate

    I played Black



    The next one was more of a battle.
    I have tried to include some quick analysis, although note that we was on 5min + 0sec time controls,
    which is especially hard for me as I'm on a laptop, and those touchpad mice are not ideal!

    I played Black again




    A lot of fun 🙂 I highly recommend giving it a go... maybe we can have multiple RHP lads in the same tourney!
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