POKER CHESS

POKER CHESS

This is a chess variant POKER CHESS. The rules are the same except for these changes. The GAME needs a 52 card casino deck, a coin, and a standard chess set. Lay out the board and shuffle the deck

First, deal the cards until both players have 7 cards each. Players look at their own cards but keep them hidden from their opponents. The remaining cards are put down on the table forming the Deck.

Second, toss a coin to decide on what will be the order of cards will be on the side of the board. The player who lose the call will put the first card face up on the table, then the players alternate to complete the 4 cards. Cards will go farther from the board as cards are laid making the nearest one from the board. The card nearest the board becomes card no. 1 counting up as you go farther from the board. These cards are called FIAT and is an essential part of the game as it progress.

White goes first. He begins by putting a card in the FIAT. The last five card dictates how the pieces moves:

HIGH CARD: no changes on piece movements.

1 PAIR: The Knights moves like Bishops

2 PAIR: The Bishops moves like Rooks

3 OF A KIND: The Knights moves like Rooks

STRAIGHT: The Rooks moves like Queens

FLUSH: The Bishops moves like Queens

FULL HOUSE: The Knights moves like Queens

4 OF A KIND: The Pawns moves like Knights

STRAIGHT FLUSH: The Pawns moves like Bishops

ROYAL FLUSH: The Pawns moves like Rooks

After moving a piece, the player can draw either from the 6th card in the FIAT or Deck. If you draw the 6th card, the 7th card will become the 6th card and his turn end.

Then Black begins his turn, followed by White, then Black, then White and so until one of them is CHECKMATED.

If the DECK have no cards left, the GAME is a DRAW.

Yes

How do you handle checkmates and stalemates?

As in, if you can change the way pieces move you can change a checkmate to a not-checkmate.

You could also use this method to break a perpetual check, so do threefold repetition draws still exist?

Also, doesn't it get a bit unwieldy laying down 52 cards face-up?

Not sure if chess.com supports gambling though... I would assume that they do not...

If this was made into a working game (which I don't think had happened yet); you could play this in real life, not just on chess.com .

But in any case, if chess.com were to implement this (which is unlikely for several reasons); it would not count as gambling. Unlike in actual poker, there are no rounds of betting. It's the rounds of betting that make poker considered gambling in some countries.

And even with actual poker, it's only gambling if you bet with real money. Use chips and no real money and it's not any more gambling than Monopoly is.

On a final note, it seems like this game would probably be only a little less deterministic than normal chess (and possibly more deterministic than something like Fog of War). Players can pick from either the FIAT or the deck, remember? That removes a lot of the random element, on top of the fact the board play and the actual cards you choose to play are all deterministic.

Me: *Trying to make my rook move like a queen for checkmate*

"LET'S GO GAMBLING!"

*Gets flush instead of straight*

"Aww, dangit!"