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Nevermind ChessBoxing, this is the hybrid game to play!
Nevermind ChessBoxing, this is the hybrid game to play!
As my new avatar on the left shows, the chess pieces are glasses filled with different types and strengths of beer. In this game the player whose piece gets captured has to drink that captured pieces' contents. You win by either checkmating your opponent, or making them pass out by capturing as many of their pieces as possible.
Gambit openings are not recommend, and snatching pawns is well advised. Also, sacrificing material for positional compensation just doesn't quite have the same effect. If you've got a weak stomach you're better off playing closed positions. If your strength is alcohol tolerance then exchange variations are the way to go. Reaching an endgame can lead to a major hangover so it's best to go for a quick checkmate.
In this game the player whose piece gets captured has to drink that captured pieces' contents.
That's odd, I recall the rule to be that to capture the piece you had to drink it. In that variation a queen sac can work by making your opponent too drunk to finish. Which version is better known?
Re: Nevermind ChessBoxing, this is the hybrid game to play!
An old story cited at chessgames.com. Despite the reference given it sounds too detailed to be true:
"A story of Dr.Lasker-Maroczy game in Cafe De la Regence, Paris, in 1901.
I read it in "Chess Herald" ( Sahovski Glasnik, Zagreb, 1926.) In those days it was the most reputable Chess monthly in the world, edited by well known author Vladimir Vukovic. The story was related to Vukovic by Dr.Lasker himself in Vienna in 1921 or 1922.
The encounter was organised by a rich Paris financier. Lasker and Maroczy were to play 1 game for a big prize; Dr.Lasker was to be the White.
What was the unusual part, were the pieces themselves, fashioned of crystal and hollow! They were actually "glasses" of appropriately different sizes filled with Cognac! A pawn contained a regular shot of a drink, while a Queen had the equvalent of a pint!
The rule was: when You took a piece, You had to empty it, bottoms up! Then the game could continue.
This is how it went:
Lasker played: 1.e4, Maroczy replied: 1...e5. Lasker: 2.Qh5. Maroczy, the financier, the kibitzers, everybody is marveling at the Champion's choice of the opening.
Maroczy, eager to gain a tempo, moved: 2...Nf6. Dr.Lasker, with a grin sacs the Queen: 3.Qxf7+, and had himself a little shot of Cognac.
There is a stir in the audience. Maroczy, dazed already, has no choice, but to take the Queen: 3...Kxf7. Now he must gulp down a pint of Cognac (and he was never a drinker!). A couple of moves later the game was over, Geza ended up under the table!!"
...The rule was: when You took a piece, You had to empty it, bottoms up! Then the game could continue.
As in the case with last night's need for a clock at the Still adjacent to the Ont. closed site last night, shot glasses may have also solved their issues of attempts at stalling in critical positions. A player might have as much time to move as the duration it took to consume the latest capture.
A couple of games from the event that are getting entered manually may yet get posted today, but after this evening, others may not arrive here immediately.
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