Chess Without Turns

First off i'd just like to say hi im new and if your reading this, thanks for taking the time to read this.

Im sure alot of people have played Chess. A LOT of people. But the reason that most people don't play chess is because they say its boring. When I ask them what makes its boring, they tell me that the 'waiting for the their turn' part is boring. To me that makes sense, so what if we were to take out the 'my turn, your turn' part in Chess. Then it wouldn't be so boring.

Don't get me wrong, I am sure many of you are imagining a game with utter chaos and pieces randomly moving without consequence. Yes that would be the initial thoughts and I could try and explain with more detail, but this video is a great example of what I am trying to get at. A game of Chess Without Turns. This would most likely resemble a game of blitz chess. The point of this is to get what you all would think of the idea of Chess Without Turns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnh9aKSTLU

I find the time spent waiting for my opponent to make a move one of the most enjoyable parts of the game. The tension can get very thick and thus increase the excitement of the game. Anyone who finds the idle-time boring isn't the target audience for chess. Let those folks enjoy short attention-span games.

I'm sure that chess without turns, or "simultaneous chess" might be interesting, but wouldn't hold my interest long enough. Chess is a game of pure skill... precise calculation... tactical prowess. What you're talking about adds a large element of randomness and perhaps even chaos to the game that denies what makes chess so appealing.

I wonder what kind of rules nightmare this would cause. LOL

Most of people who say chess is boring only say that because of one or more of the following reasons:

• They don't know how to play.
• They are jealous of our super awesome skizzles.
• Mating is not always as exciting as one might assume from the name.
• They can't sit still for more than a minute.
• They are one of those people who say that life is meaningless and everything is boring.
• They think that it is cruel to chop down trees to make wooden pieces for entertainment.
• They suffer from severe anger and stress after losing.
• They have seen Jose Raul Capablanca play.
• The pieces don't make any big loud noises when they move.
• The pieces are never in the exact center of the square and it gets really annoying.
• Everybody always cheats against them by moving their king and rook in one turn.
• It is nothing like a real war.
• It's harder to play when drunk...

I've got a bunch more if you want hear them.

It'd turn chess into a reaction game. In the right circumstance, a pawn could take multiple pieces, rolling up the board, before your opponent had a chance to react. (or any piece really, not just a pawn)

Or you have strict rules (pauses between taking a piece), at which point it has to be played on a computer.

The variant of chess i am referring to is what you want because it is a reaction game. The video in my first post is only of a slow version if you can believe it. There is a faster version that takes 10x the speed and thus 10x the reaction time. And if you think about most of all the things you do in regular chess could be done in chess without turns. And without turns it would lead to more combo's and faster mates.

Faster mates which would lead to faster games may not be in the best interest to those who like the time it takes for your opponent to move but im sure alot of others would. There is a game online for chess without turns and alot of people out there play it.

I think there are better ways to advocate chess than to turn it into a new game. If you´re having a problem waiting for your turn, Blitz or Bullet ought to solve that, if you can´t wait the 3 secs in between your turns, I suggest you try Quake Arena instead.

wow.. i looked at that vid.. dude if black can move like 3 times why not take like 2 pieces in a row then move it to safety?

 Because as you saw in the video there is a timer for each piece. The timer is in the form of a yellowish background that starts out filling the whole 3D piece and then fades as the 10 seconds become 0.In that particular game each piece had a timer of 10 seconds. That is one of the few rules of chess without turns. Other then that its basically the same rules as regular chess. En passent, piece movements, etc.

I've found what seems to be the only variant of chess without turns left. Although it can only be played online its extremely fun and it also uses as much tactical thinking in blitz chess as well as most of the tactical thinking in regular chess. Visit the site for alot more information as it also has a video tutorial that helps both visually and mentally.

http://tempestchess.com/

I've been playing this variant a bit, it's awesome. It is actually a remarkably clean and simple game, while still being crazy difficult to master. Highly addictive!

 Yes and it gets better every week as new updates come out.

Hey! I remember you! You're the guy who thrashed me yesterday...

Oh well, move on Nytik, stop letting every loss get you down...

the tempestchess.com leads to a site that says you have to sign up to find out what it costs!?  i think this might be like kung fu chess?