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A: Chess Massacre Variants-Play Find The Fastest Way?

Arnaud MortierDoes this beat your rooks file? (24.5 moves) And the Queens (21.5 moves) The Bishops (23 moves) NP pawns (35 moves) YP pawns (33.5 moves) Dark squared Bishops (26.5 moves) (with constraint added that Light squared Bishops can only be captured by a King)

 
Rewan Demontay
Rewan Demontay
Rooks-Yes, Bishops-Yes, Queens-No, becuase one of the Queens is captured BEFORE all other captures of non-queen pieces are completed.
 
Arnaud Mortier
Arnaud Mortier
@RewanDemontay Good spot! Edited, hopefully it's ok now. I've also added NP pawns. If I understand correctly, this NP-pawn variation is also valid as a YP-pawn?
 
Rewan Demontay
Rewan Demontay
Yes, your queens game is now good. NP is also good. YP is the same as NP, but with pawn promotions allowed.
 
Arnaud Mortier
Arnaud Mortier
@RewanDemontay It's surprisingly not easy to do better with promotion than without (here 1.5 moves better).
 
Rewan Demontay
Rewan Demontay
Hm. Yep. So true. And YP is looking good!
 
Arnaud Mortier
Arnaud Mortier
12:05 PM
@RewanDemontay I got 1.5 move better for the dark squared bishops. Also I added a constraint compared to your variation: LSBs should only be captured by a King, not another LSB.
 
Rewan Demontay
Rewan Demontay
Looking good, I doesn’t really matter if LBS are captured by the Kings or each other; DBS can’t get them anyhow. Same thing applies to the LBS variant regarding DBS.
It saves you half a move: apronus.com/chess/pgnviewer/…
 

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