Live from the Colosseum
Chinatown Chess Battledome The Classically Attractive Men of Olympus against the Not Classically Attractive Men of the swamp. Two players, one board, a crowd of thousands, and every capture a fight to remember.
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Watch from the stands No games under way. The sand is freshly raked.
The rules of the arena CAM (Classically Attractive Men) play white: a randomly chosen cast of the gods of Olympus. NACAM (Not Classically Attractive Men) play black: ogres, hogs and worse. Every game draws its own cast, one character per kind of piece.
Ordinary chess rules: castling, en passant, promotion; draws by stalemate, repetition, fifty moves or bare kings. 3, 5 or 10 minutes each on the clock, or 3 days a move. Run out and you lose (unless the other side can’t possibly mate you).Each side has a minute for its first move (three days in a daily game), or the game is called off. Every capture is a fight, and the crowd has opinions. 