Giant set at new shopping center.

We have a fancy new shopping district in town. They have a giant chess set (3 foot pieces) out in the open that people can play with. I saw the guy setting the pieces out, he obviously didn't know or didn't care about the correct starting position. It was like this -



I was going to put them in the right place, but then I noticed the bigger problem.

I call white.

Originally posted by Jasen777
We have a fancy new shopping district in town. They have a giant chess set (3 foot pieces) out in the open that people can play with. I saw the guy setting the pieces out, he obviously didn't know or didn't care about the correct starting position. It was like this -

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I was going to put them in the right place, but then I noticed the bigger problem.

I call white.

I call white.[/b]

Without a king I can't be checkmated. It is of course a illegal position.

Somewhere in another city, there's a mall with two white kings. 😞

In the Baltic at Newcastle they have a giant marble chess set. All the pieces and squares are white.

http://imaginepeace.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/yokochess77.jpg

Originally posted by Jasen777
We have a fancy new shopping district in town. They have a giant chess set (3 foot pieces) out in the open that people can play with. I saw the guy setting the pieces out, he obviously didn't know or didn't care about the correct starting position. It was like this -

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I was going to put them in the right place, but then I noticed the bigger problem.

I call white.

At first I was thinking fisher random minus the "castleable" rule.

Then... yeah... white.

A fake beard and an old hat on one of the white queens... problem solved!

so since white has no king does white loose by default since he/she has lost the king?? or have they won since they can't be checkmated?

Originally posted by Jasen777
I was going to put them in the right place, but then I noticed the bigger problem.

Originally posted by Nordlys
It's not a problem, it's just a modern, politically correct chess set that acknowledges the possibility and validity of homosexual royal marriage.

And you can see that the bishops are all confined to the dark squares, and thus are kept separate from the workings of the state, as it should be.

Originally posted by pijun
It's a variation on the birds and bees

Originally posted by Nordlys
I know what the Bird is (and play it), but what's the Bee opening?