This game is being played under All Queens rules. Click the 'info' tab for more information.
1. d4 c5 Clock started on 01/30/2012
2. dxc5 Qxc5 3. b4 Qcd6 4. Qxd6 Qxd6 5. c4 g6 6. a3 Qxa1 7. Qxa1 Qh8 8. f4 a5 9. c5 Qxa1 10. Qxa1 Qda6 11. Qd1 axb4 12. axb4 b6 13. Qf3 Qxf3 14. gxf3 e6 15. Qgd4 bxc5 16. bxc5 Qa7 17. Qhg1 Qda5+ 18. Kf1 Qfxc5 19. Kg2 Ke7 20. Q1a1 Qxd4 21. Qaxd4 Qxd4 22. Qxd4 Qd5 23. Qc3 Qc6 24. Qb2 Qc5 25. e4 Qc7 26. Qa3+ Qd6 27. Qe3 Qb4 28. Qa7 Qc3 29. h4 f6 30. Qb8 Qd2+ 31. Kg3 Qe1+ 32. Kg2 Qxh4 33. Qb4+ Kf7 34. Qa4 f5 35. Qxd7+ Qe7 36. Qd4 fxe4 37. fxe4 g5 38. f5 exf5 39. exf5 h5 40. Qd5+ Kf6 41. Qd4+ Qe5 42. Qd8+ Kxf5 43. Qd7+ Qe6 44. Qh7+ Kg4 45. Qd3 Qc6+ 46. Kf2 h4 47. Qd1+ Kf4 48. Qd2+ Kf5 49. Qd3+ Qe4 50. Qd7+ Kg6 51. Qd6+ Kh5 52. Qd1+ g4 53. Qd2 Qe5 54. Kf1 h3 55. Kg1 Qc5+ 56. Kh2 Qe5+ 57. Kg1 Qf5 58. Kh2 Qe5+ 59. Kg1 Qa1+ 60. Kh2= Qf6 61. Kg1= Qe5 62. Kh1 Qf6 63. Kg1 Qb6+ 64. Kh2= Qc7+ 65. Kh1= Draw
No point in wasting time with slow knight moves; for the truly power hungry, you can have your King and seven Queens and battle to a bitter pawn endgame, unless you're savvy enough to force checkmate before then.
Game rules
The game starts with the following setup
All standard chess rules are in place, where possible. Of course there is no castling.
While only queens are available initially, it is possible to promote to the other pieces (you can promote a pawn to a knight, for instance).
Hints
In most of the games players build up pressure, piling up the queens in the enemy camp, finally reaching massive queen exchanges. Then, players usually end up playing a queen endgame - most frequently having 1-2 queens each, and 5-6 pawns (note that one usually has more pawns here than in a typical standard chess queen endgame).
Keeping the king hidden and its shield protected is crucial, with hordes of queens there is no room for the king to become active.
Watch out for double attacks and calculate carefully the numbers of attacking and defending pieces!
Do not underestimate the pawns. The queens will be - sooner or later - exchanged, leading to the endgame. Then the extra pawn, especially a passed pawn, can be decisive.
Example games
Queen Me - both players try to induct weaknesses in opponent position, but also defend carefully, the game ends in a draw when nobody is able to make progress without risking too much,
Little pawn - complicated queen manoeuvres and exchanges let white win one little pawn, in the resulting endgame its march turns decisive.
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.