There is always something new to talk about when you play antichess, my favorite chess variant that we return to after our weekly tournament on Hive, and I have some fun games I want to show you
First, a clarification, if you have no idea what antichess is, I can summarize it for you: the first person to run out of pieces or valid moves wins, when you can capture a piece you have to do it and that will be your only available move, the rest is the same as traditional chess
or at least it tries to be because there are many things that change.
The first moves are the most difficult you will ever play in your life. I recommend remembering several of the openings that this variation has because we will need them to not fall dead in the first moves. Here is an example of what I am talking about in case you are curious.
This whole game is mostly just theory, unique moves that we have to make so that the bar does not tip the advantage for either side, although there is a slight advantage, I think it is not so visible for certain players.
We have a second example and this is something new, I am more comfortable letting my opponent discard pieces while I look for a good attack plan to finish him off, but here also the calculations that we can make come into play, and there are many since if the queen is still in play and we let it enter our territory we can have a game like this where there are many captures involved.
It's not easy at all and you can be tamed in a couple of moves against strong opponents, also believe it or not there are endgame concepts here in this variation, but I'll leave that for later, just appreciate how a true professional finishes me in a couple of moves.
If you are interested in this variation I am always available on lichess to teach some tricks or the basics of this version of the game, and if you got this far thank you very much for the support