if so, i have never heard anything about it. If this happened to me ( especially in two different ways), I would at least ask him what it was called. But I think you handled it well
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No, not by standard chess rules it isn't. You can only move I piece per turn unless you are castling.
They can play 1.a4 2.h4 or 1.b4 2.g4 but they certainly can't play 1.a4/h4 or 1.b4/g4. They have to use two moves if they want to move two pawns!
There are places that play chess variants, of course. For example: "The Game at Chess as now played at Stroebeck, differs from that commonly played in the following particulars: The pieces being placed as usual, each party is obliged to play his king's rook's pawn, queen's rook's pawn, and queen's pawn two squares, and the queen to her third square."
http://blog.chess.com/batgirl/the-chess-village--journey-to-strbeck
hmmm...
lkoraki wrote:
I learned chess in Brussels in 1990 and the teacher told us this move is allowed on each player's 1st turn; just like en-passant is permitted only "on the spot". Yet I cannot reproduce this move on Chess.com so I came here to understand why and I am very surprised you guys don't know it.
Apparently your teacher in Brussels was a couple of beers above his norm.
Sep 15, 2024
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lkoraki wrote:
I learned chess in Brussels in 1990 and the teacher told us this move is allowed on each player's 1st turn; just like en-passant is permitted only "on the spot". Yet I cannot reproduce this move on Chess.com so I came here to understand why and I am very surprised you guys don't know it.
Man those people in Brussels! 9 years before your incident, this happened:
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said "Do you speak a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.
Sep 27, 2024
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ThrillerFan a écrit :
lkoraki wrote:
I learned chess in Brussels in 1990 and the teacher told us this move is allowed on each player's 1st turn; just like en-passant is permitted only "on the spot". Yet I cannot reproduce this move on Chess.com so I came here to understand why and I am very surprised you guys don't know it.
Man those people in Brussels! 9 years before your incident, this happened:
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said "Do you speak a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.
That was almost poetry,
So I will admit in good faith,
That an in-depth study,
Revealed I've been tough wrong.
That's a common street rule in Indonesia. Locals usually accept that rule.
Source: I'm Indonesian.
I searched this, just to find this. still confuses me to this day, how is indonesian chess is so different and where else allows rules like this? and how come I can't find much info about it or it's history... amongs the other street rules I find confusing is allowing someone to kill the king, and shouting "stare" when attacking queen, and others... can anyone elaborate
I live in Indonesia and two people I have played chess with here use this opening. One, uses the a and h pawn two squares forward while the other used the b and g pawns in the same fashion. I didn't allow it because I have never heard about this opening before anywhere. Is this a real opening?