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Jeremy Good wrote on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 02:18 PM EDT:

Connected Chess is quite fun, quite tactical -- Isolate to eliminate.

I was playing another one of Troyka's games the other day, Double Agent Chess, similar to Benedict Chess except the attacked piece always flips to the opposite color.

And I had the humiliating experience of checkmating myself (flipping my own king) on the first move. I lost without my opponent having to make a single move!

1. Nf3 was the losing move. May be a good practical joke to play on Kramnik. 'But, Vladimir, did you not know this is a Double Agent Chess tournament?'


Roberto Lavieri wrote on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 02:02 PM EDT:
Yes, this is the game, by W.D. Troyka, year 2001. Simple, elegant and
very nice to play, I find it much better than usual Chess, strategy is
different, tactics are much more rich, and the ends of game are
incredible, I highly recommend it to all players. Try it, you are going
to be greatly surprised. Brilliant!, for me, one of the best games of
W.D. Troyka, perhaps the best, and I have to say he has a lot of good
games.

Jeremy Good wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 08:18 PM EDT:
Guess what? I found it! Connected Chess

This the one you meant? Simple enough concept. Like some of Troyka's other famous games (Benedict Chess) we start with the regular FIDE pieces and board but turn everything upside down with a simple rule change.


Roberto Lavieri wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 07:41 PM EDT:
There is an old game by D.Troika called Connected Chess, and in
zillionsofgames.com you can find an outstanding zrf for it. This game is
amazingly good, you have to play it to see. Excellent!

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sun, Dec 12, 2004 07:43 PM EST:
This is an excellent variant of Chess, I played it twice, some time ago. I
think the inventor is Mr. Dan Troyka, but this game is not referred in the
Chess Variants Pages. Has someone more information?

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