Christian Diego Alcocer, 46, from Mexico City. I'm a professor in Bogota's Xavierian University after I got my Ph.D. in Economics degree in Michigan State University. Go Green! Musician, poker player, cook, ... and chess player. :)
On 2015-07-08 I was number 1 in "finger PokerBot"s best list! I loved my 15 minutes of fame. ;)
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Account first used: 10-Jul-1997 % of life on icc: 9.99
New chess variant: DRACONIAN CHESS! Same as regular chess but, in any move, you can "kill" and remove any of your own pieces. For instance, in "examine microtone %30" white mates in one with 1. xh2#. Note that stalemate usually loses in this variant because the side to move will have to kill one
of his pieces. In both "examine microtone %31" and "examine microtone %32", white wins with 1. Ke6! In the first it's checkmate (the only "legal" move for black would be to kill its king so it's mate) and in the second, black loses after 1. ... xa3 (only move) 2. a4.
Although this would drastically reduce the number of draws, for most (read: non IMs/GMs) players, a huge part of the opening theory would still be relevant. Also, this would surely promote lots of exciting tactic and strategic "sacrifices".
I'm logged in 10% of the time (Seriously! % of life on icc: 10.00) but I'm idle 90% of that time. I apologize if I don't respond to channel tells, but I miss most of those since I'm usually doing stuff from another window. Whistle at me with a tell if I do!
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