My name is Oleg and every few years in my dreams I get ideas. One of them, I feel obligated to share, and I believe that Cosmonautics Day is perfect for launching it into the world.
After spending my childhood and adolescence with a dog, somewhere in 2011 I dreamed that we lost each other on a walk. So, in my dream, I came to the conclusion that a GPS harness for dogs would solve this problem. When I woke up, I immediately began to look for similar inventions on the Internet and realized that the idea was not new - there were already GPS collars.
After 5 years, against the background of love for music, I periodically dreamed of new melodies and even the first lines of poems, which I enthusiastically continued to compose after awakening, thanks to which I found my style in poetry.
5 years later, just a couple of days ago, on April 10, 2021, being an amateur chess player, I dreamed about team chess. As a child, I often went to competitions in this sport, and quite often, along with the individual competition, team tournaments were also held.
In chess, they run in such a way that pairs play their games separately, and their results are summed up. It is not so spectacular and collective. The team spirit is felt and the responsibility is felt, but the players win and lose individually, without the right to mutual assistance during the tour.
And I would like - "stand or fall" with the full mutual support of your teammates on the chessboard, as in football or cyber sports. But how can this be done? - I myself did not know, and did not even think until I dreamed that I was playing a simultaneous game at a chess school according to unusual, but very familiar and basic rules...
When I woke up, I went to the search engines and was surprised to find nothing of the kind. This is the reason why I decided to write this article and tell people about the new kind of game.
Its implementation is possible both in the usual version of chess with the alternation moves of players, and in e-sports disciplines (kung fu / action chess) with real time, where the pieces can move at the same time. I welcome any implementation of this idea, both in real life and in the online environment, and moreover, ready to assist and support in this.
Now let's get to the point. This is what a regular chessboard looks like:
Why not add another one?
And now a team game is already possible: light against dark.
The number of squares between the opponents' pawns is variable and is revealed empirically (4-6-8-10-12). You can do this:
Or you can do this:
Finally, we come to the version of team chess that I dreamed with only one remark - in my dream there were about 5-6 ordinary boards (i.e. 8 squares vertically).
Sounds like crazy, but don't jump to conclusions. The playing area is really rather big, but the number of cells in the vertical and participants in the horizontal direction is adjustable.
Beginners can limit their attention to one board, amateurs to neighboring ones, and professionals need to keep an eye on the entire battlefield to keep the game under control.
It should only:
- choose good colors for the pieces to distinguish between the players;
- distribute different shades to the fields on the boards so that the cells do not turn into a mirage;
- decide how opponents are eliminated from the game - by checkmate or the king's death.
The eliminated player cannot move his pieces, but they remain on the board, the other players continue the battle until one of the teams is completely defeated. This type of chess gives a lot of new strategic opportunities, synergy of teamwork, increases entertainment and the intensity of emotions.
I really hope that my discovery is not a godsend for the practice of a psychotherapist, but this kind of chess will find life and its fans. If I am the discoverer of this idea, then I publish it under a free license. Good night ;)
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