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Bughouse Spartan Chess. streetmansd. (2x(8x8), Cells: 128) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Daniil Frolov wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2010 02:45 PM UTC:
It's just Spartan and standart chess, played with bughouse rules.
But these 2 variants would be interesting:
1) One one board both players have armies A (standart, for example) and on other board both players have armies B (Spartan, for example);
2) 2 Armies on same board are unequal, on second board armies are same, but teammate have different army.
Any unequal armies game, played according to one of these rules, will be balanced :).

NeodymiumPhyte wrote on Thu, Aug 29, 2024 05:36 PM UTC:

If black has 1 Persian King and 1 Spartan King, is there duple-check for them?


H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Aug 29, 2024 06:28 PM UTC in reply to NeodymiumPhyte from 05:36 PM:

Since Spartan Kings behave as if they are promoted Hoplites, and thus demote on capture, this situation would require promoting a passed Hoplite. The rule description does not specify whether this is allowed. In Spartan Chess there is a restriction on when you can promote to King, and it is not obvious how this rule should be extended to the case where Hoplites fight in an army headed by a Persian King. One possible extention would be that a Persian King already counts as a pair in itself, and that its presence thus suppresses the King option on promotion. Then the situation could never occur.


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