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What happens if one player tries a castling move, but the other player
moves a piece to a position in which the castle movement is not permissed
because the King pass through check?.
The idea of annotate the move in person to person physical games is good,
to avoid the danger of broken pieces or fractured fingers when two anxious
players try to put their pieces in the same square as simultaleously as
possible.

Javier, this is certainly an excellent invention of yours, but bad luck,
Synchronous Chess is almost the same game and was there before, it exists
since 1991, as attested by the Encyclopedia of Chess Variants.

>I reserve to myself the right to investigate and start any legal action
against the people behind Synchronous Chess. 

Even if Synchronous Chess is not under licence, I don't think this would
be appropriate :-) It's the author of that (really good) game who should
have won a Lepine price.

Fabrice, I am quite curious about what you say. I started to investigate
and I couldn’t find any real proof of the existence of synchronous chess
before July 2002.
As a matter of fact, there’s someone else who claims to be the inventor of
synchronous chess. (http://www.hexenspiel.de/engl/synchronous-chess/)
I don’t want to start a controversy about it. I opened an email account
where you or anyone can send information that can proof the date of
invention of the mentioned game: legal@xymyx.com

I would like to explain the a couple of things about XYMYX:

1)	There are no issues regarding simultaneity and the case when two pieces
land in the same empty square.
2)	About the feature of capturing your own pieces, I would like to explain
that capturing a piece in a simultaneous move is really hard. For Example,
let’s suppose that the black queen is in c6, you move white rook to C6 to
try to capture the queen but the queen isn’t there anymore. With the
possibility to capture your own pieces you can prepare yourself against an
eventual attack of an aggressive piece.
3)	About the Frozen Queen: With the simultaneity feature the aggressive
pieces become more powerful, specially the Queen. If that rule didn’t
exist, the game would be about who captures the opponent’s queen first.

Roberto, En general no se necesita más de 30 segundos para entrar al Web de
XYMYX.
Estoy tratando de imaginar porque tienes porblemas ingresando.
Cuentame cuales son las características de tu maquina y conexión.
Saludos

Javier,

Interesting concept, how is the web site coming along - have you got many
players signed up.

Its good to see the concept of synchronicity coming more to the fore. 

Good luck with the game.

Have a look at VEN Chess, on this site, for an alternative view on
simultaneous movement.

regards
        Graham

The rules about resolving the problem with two pieces in the same square
or
dual checkmates by who 'records the move first.' means you can't play
by
mail or the equivalent. It also means that in non-computer mediated games
you can have disputes as to who recorded first. Why have a move order
dependency in a simultaneous-play game?

It would seem more logical to treat simultaneous mate as a draw and to
resolve two identical pieces colliding as a mutual capture.

Bruce:
XYMYX is a computer aided game, in it's essence is a commercial variant
of chess. The game is available for a testing period at www.xymyx.com
The simultaneous check mate is an importat rule of XYMYX, because it
awards the player of fastest thinking (it is a consequence of the rule
'two pieces in the same empty square')

El XYMYX me parece uno de los juegos de estrategia más interesantes que he
tenido la oportunidad de jugar, es divertido y la vez educacional, la
opción de mover las fichas a la vez le da un nivel de dificultad y
atractivo bastante grande.

Felicitaciones a los creadores de tan interesante Juego.

Att: Byron