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Action Man's Chess. A small (5x6) board and simple pieces ensures lots of easy-to-understand action. (5x6, Cells: 30) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 10:54 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
This variation certainly does provide a quick and fast way to play chess. The game seems to very rarely last more than five or six minutes, yet is still fun. <p> The point system is a much needed portion of the game as often the game develops to the point where it is immposible to checkmate your opponent (if they have a brain). Points can quickly wrap up the game. <p> One more thing. Here is a proposed additional rule to avoid stalemates without resorting to the point system: <ul> <li> If only spearmen are left on the board, they may move sideways one square in addition to their other moves. </ul> <p> While not for the fan of elaborate strategies, Action Man's chess is a fast, fun game.

Charles Gilman wrote on Fri, Jan 9, 2004 10:49 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
An alternative anti-stalemate measure might be to allow Spearmen to be promoted to captured pieces (in the obvious place) so that there need never be only Spearmen.

Jeff Rients wrote on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 10:08 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Nifty little variant.

Incidentally, the inspiration for this game is a line from
www.oldmanmurray.com, a rather vulgar website devoted to reviewing video
games in a rude and crude fashion.  The call for 'action man's chess'
comes on page two of the review for the video game Rune.

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