It's been a while since I told you about my progress in antichess and I think that with work again I have been kept away from the board a bit, but I haven't lost my edge and here is another express lesson of my favorite variation.
For those who don't know what antichess is, it is a variant of the original game where the objective is to run out of pieces or valid moves. If we accomplish that, we can declare ourselves the winner, but there is a stretch in the middle.
It must be said that it is not as easy as one thinks, at least not at the beginning.
To begin with, we have an extra rule, which is that all the pieces that we can capture with our own pieces, we will have to do so in an obligatory manner, and in fact, if we have a piece of our opponent in our sights, that will be the only valid move we will have. This already drastically changes a lot of our mentality on the board.
Since there may be situations where we find ourselves lost after a few moves because our opponent makes us enter into what I call a chain of captures, where we are only capturing pieces until we lose, and in fact this is the main reason why games end in antichess
One of the two on the board gets distracted and is not careful with his pieces, so the other takes advantage of this weakness to finish him off quickly and without a response, as happens in many of these games.
There is a lot to study behind this whole variant, for example the openings and even the endgames that we can get into when we have a certain level, the truth is that the objective of the game gives me a breath of fresh air that makes me want to study everything again just to be better than the opponent
I think it is a very fun variant to play and also fast, most of the games do not last more than 1 minute, if it is more I think I would be stressed most of the time but luckily they do not take long and we can have fun for a while with the positions that can come out here.