This game is being played under Full House rules. Click the 'info' tab for more information.
1. P@d4 P@e4 Clock started on 11/03/2011
2. P@d6 P@d3 3. P@e5 P@d5 4. P@c6 P@e6 5. P@f4 P@f5 6. Q@e3 N@g4 7. P@f3 N@c4 8. P@h3 P@b3 9. B@b4 P@b6 10. R@c3 R@b5 11. P@a4 P@c5 12. R@a3 B@a5 13. B@h4 Q@a6 14. N@g6 B@h6 15. N@g3 R@h5 16. axb5 Qxb5 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
17. fxe4 Ngxe3 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
18. Nxh5 Nxd1 19. Kxd1 fxg6 20. Bxa5 dxc2+ 21. Ke1 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
21... bxa5 22. Rcxb3 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
22... Nxa3 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
23. Rxb5 Nxb5 24. dxe7 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
24... Nxe7 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
25. dxc5 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
25... gxh5 26. cxb7 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
26... Bxb7 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
27. exf5 Bxf4 28. fxe6 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
28... dxe6 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
29. Nc3 Nxc3 30. dxc3 Bxc1 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
31. Rxc1 g6 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
32. Rxc2 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
32... Bh6 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
33. c4 dxc4 34. Rxc4 Bd5 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
35. Bxe7 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
35... Qxe7 36. Ra4 Qxc5 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
37. e3 Qc1+ Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
38. Ke2 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
38... Qxb2+ 39. Ke1 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
39... Bxa2 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
40. Rxa5 Qc3+ 41. Kd1 Qxa5 42. Ne2 Bb3+ 43. Kc1 HoutzJ: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
43... O-O Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
44. Nd4 Qc3+ 45. Kb1 Nc6 Evjen: Lifeline, clock reset to 10 days
46. Bb5 Nb4 47. Nxe6 Qc2+ 48. Ka1 Qa2# Black win
62 pieces on normal 64-square board. This game was invented by surfnsuds and as far as we know is unique to SchemingMind.
Rules
Start by switching to your materials list. You'll see a nearly complete set of reserve pieces. Only the king is missing. During the first phase of the game, we take turns placing all our pieces on the board. The only restriction is that we may not check the opponent's king. Then we play chess by regular rules.
Example position after all pieces are placed
Strategy
Black's king is vulnerable to attack at F7 and so must respond to attacks there. Likewise, if black is not defending against such an attack, white may be attacked similarly at F2. So far, it has not been demonstrated that there exists a forced win. However, players may optionally agree to a truce on those squares, in order to try other more creative attacks.
Example games
Game Page Help
The Action Bar
The Action Bar is the most important part of the game screen, this is where you interact with the game by entering moves, conditional moves, comments, draw offers, resignations, and much more (if you are not viewing one of your own games, the Action Bar is not shown). The Action Bar is in four parts, from left to right:
- The Move Input Box: where your move or conditional move is shown; it is possible to type into this box, but not recommended, you can enter your move by dragging and dropping the pieces on the board.
- The Action Selection Dropdown: this is where you select the action you want to do, for example, move, enter a comment, accept a draw offer, claim a draw, etc. Only the actions which are relevant to the current game are shown.
- The Continue Button: this button sends your action back to our server; sometimes you might see a pop-up text box before the action is sent, this is so that you can write a message to your opponent. You can set your preferences so that this box is always shown to confirm you move (under the "Chess Board" tab "Confirm moves before committing), some people find this helpful as a "blunder check".
- The Next Game button: clicking the button will take you to the next game for which it is your move.
The Game Information Panel
Under the Action Bar, you should find the Game Information Panel. This gives you more information about the game; because there is too much information to see on one screen here, it is arranged into "tab"; you can move between the various screens by clicking the buttons, from left to right:
- Game Overview: this tab shows the full history of the game, including comments (you cannot read the comments from another player's game, unless the game is marked as "public"), leave taken, etc. You can click the moves to see the position on the chess board.
- Hide Comments: this tab shows the moves of the game only, without the distraction of the comments shown on the game overview tab.
- Material Balance: this tab shows the captured pieces in the game. If you are playing CrazyHouse chess, or a similar game, you can drag pieces from here to the board to make a "drop".
- Tags: You can "tag" games, this makes it easier to come back to games, you can find the games you have tagged from the game database screen.
- Variant Information: this tab is available for some chess variants, it will show you a description of the variant.
- Opening Book: In standard chess games, this tab will show you information about the chess opening you have been playing, taken from the Game Explorer.
- Analysis Board: Opening this tab will overlay an "analysis board" on the main chess board; you can move the pieces around freely on this board to try out various ideas in the game.
- Engine Analysis: This tab allows you to analyse the game using a chess engine; because the use of engines is not allowed on SchemingMind, this tab is not available for ongoing games.
- Share: The share tab will allow you to share your game on social media (if someone becomes a member by following one of your links, you will be rewarded with a complimentary extension to your full membership); you can also download the game as either an animated GIF or in PGN format, and you can copy the current position to your clipboard in FEN format.
- Help: If you are reading this, you have already figured out what the help button does!
The Chess Board
The chess board shows the current position in your game; if it is your move, or if you can enter a conditional move, you can drag and drop the pieces on the chess board.
If you wish to castle, simply drag your king over the rook on the side you wish to castle on. When you promote a pawn, you will see a pop-up prompting you to select the promoted piece.
We have a number of different designs for chess boards and pieces, you can select the one you prefer from your personal preferences.
Under the chess board is a navigation toolbar (this toolbar looks slightly different if you are looking at the analysis board).
From left to right:
- Settings: This button will bring up your chess board and pieces display settings.
- Move to Start: This button will show the start position of the game.
- Previous Move: This button will move position shown on the board back one move.
- Next Move: This button will show the next position on the board.
- Last Move: This button will show the current position on the board.
- Flip: This button will show the board from the other player's perspective (by default you see games from White's perspective unless you are Black; you can select an option to always show the board from White's perspective in your personal preferences).
- Animate: If you are not looking at the last move in the game, this button will animate the game from the shown position to the last move.
- Stop Animation: This button will stop the animation.
View this article in the Knowledge Base.