GIVEAWAY

***** GIVEAWAY *****

Giveaway Chess (wild 26) is a chess variant where you try to lose
all your pieces.  It is quite old and well known as chess variants go,
and is also known as Losing Chess or Suicide Chess.  There are various
sets of rules for it, but we use what seem to be the most traditional
rules:

    (1) Capturing is compulsory, but you can choose among alternatives.

    (2) The king plays no special role; it can be taken, put or left en prise.

    (3) Pawns can promote to king.

    (4) The player to move wins if he cannot move; i.e., he has no pieces left
        or all his pieces are stalemated.

Castling is sometimes legal; just ignore the check considerations,
since there is no concept of "check" in Giveaway.

Giveaway Chess is rated in the Loser's category, along with wild 17
(Loser's Chess).

You should get Blitzin 2.30 (or whatever the latest version is) for use
with with Giveaway.  Blitzin 2.00 - 2.29 don't display promotion-to-king
correctly; the king will be displayed as a pawn.  Also, you'll need to
type the move to promote to a king, e.g. "a8=K"; this is also true in
Blitzin 1.81.  Some other interfaces might have trouble too.  But
Blitzin 2.30 puts King on the promote-to menu and everything.


See also:  wild17, wild