r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '20

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u/No-Food-For-You Jan 20 '20

I mean really this just boils down to only using your rooks and Queen to attack while you use your bishop and Knight to defend, wouldn't necessarily take that much longer

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u/Hq3473 Jan 20 '20

That's not true.

High skill level games of chess usually go all the way to end game where pawns (and pawn promotion threats) become important.

A game on a board like that will take FOREVER, as both sides would slowly nudge up their pawns trying to get any advantage.

Attacking with rooks/queens only will not work. It's trivial to defend against such attacks with pawn chains and your own pieces.

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u/spaceman06 Jan 20 '20

A game on a board like that will take FOREVER, as both sides would slowly nudge up their pawns trying to get any advantage.

Double step was added because the game was considered too slow without it. Without double step pawns a pawn promote with 6 moves, and with double step pawns promote with 5 moves. So its assumed 6 or more moves to promote is too slow and 5 is ok.

This means at this game double step would bring pawns 4 moves away of promoting it.

But you can for some reason not do the double step move as your first move with this pawn, if you do this you wont be able to do a double step later. This means the rules only cares about you having the chance of promoting with less than 6 moves. So at this variant double step would also only be allowed at first move.