Zugzwang Free Chess

Zugzwang is a position in which you lose something no matter where you move.
Zugzwang free chess is chess in which you are allowed to pass your turn.
Zugzwang free chess should be included at Chess.com
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NOTE: this variant is recorded in D.B. Pritchard's Encyclopedia of Chess variants, second ed. I do not claim to have invented it.

Automatic draw if both players pass consecutively?

no, Thre Times repitition of position would ensure that the game woudl draw after three passes in a row.

A large majority of won endgames become dead draws this way. Just saying.

I know, I didn't invent it.

But if both players take a pass, then the game cannot continue.  Do they have a staring contest?  Arm wrestle?

stupid.

Then many well-known won positions would become drawn. Virtually all endgames would become draws thus, except for a few like two rooks + king vs. king, two queens + king vs. king, rook and minor piece and king vs. king, and a few others. It would be pretty boring...

Zugzwang free chess. A good idea when your losing; but an awful idea when your winning.

Think of it this way: If 90% of games are draws, then winning one game might be enough to catapult you to the lead in a tournement. It makes winning more rewarding. If you don't like it, you don't have to play it.

Think of it this way: At GM level, I'm not even sure if games are winnable under zugzwng-free chess. You're vastly underestimating the monumental effect of adding a 'pass' move. King+Pawn v King is never winning; I've done some playing around and I think a long King can even hold a draw vs 2 connected pawns+King.

If a Black King can step in front of a lone White pawn, the game is a dead draw.

Unless I'm mistaken in my quick analysis, if a Black King can step in front of connected White pawns, the game is drawn if White has no pieces or other pawns.

I think I barfed a little inside my mouth when I read this.

It's a good variant if we figure a way to put laser beams in this.

 laser beams and non-zugzwang games... Soon we'll be saying:

 "Wouldn't chess be more intense if you lit the board on fire?"

Whoa! That's brilliant!

I demand that chess.com implement a flaming chessboard variant.

I propose quitting that insane form of normal chess that makes violent brutes of us all.

Gentlemen (and ladies) I give you Wussy Chess:

See them cooperating instead of competing? Do ya? Feel better already?

Imagine...

lol How can those two tell their pieces apart?! Is there like a miniscule red dot on top of some of them that i can't see?!

Supremacy chess?