Talk:Monster chess

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White has excellent chances by keeping the King and the Pawns close together.

Note that it is impossible for the Black King and Queen alone to checkmate the lone White King. SNowwis

In that situation, Black can force a draw by putting the Black King in a corner and planting the Black Queen on the square diagonally next to it. Just don't move the Queen from then on. Cybersecurityczar (talk) 13:32, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

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06 Oct 03. Reverted dumb "humor". Can somebody who understands the rules of this game please check if correct now? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.165.208.90 (talk) 03:37, 6 October 2003 (UTC)

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Ambiguously stated rule

The page states this rule:

If a King is in check, the King must be placed out of check.

This is ambiguous. Suppose that Black, on its move, places the white King in check. White now has two moves. Does the rule require that White un-check the king on its first of two moves? Or does this rule merely require that the White King not be in check by the end of White's second move? — Lawrence King ^(talk) 03:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

This issue has to be resolved. It contradicts the caption for the chess problem on the page that explains that white mates by advancing a pawn to d6. According to this rule as written, black can at least delay the mate by using the queen to check the white king. Cybersecurityczar (talk) 13:01, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Promotion

What happens when White's pawns get to the eighth rank? If they promote as in FIDE chess, Black is immediately toast (and this ought to be mentioned). Double sharp (talk) 12:52, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

There are some pitiful positions where the black king can wall himself in and hold off mate a very short while. Would make an interesting study.Cybersecurityczar (talk) 13:12, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

How does en passant work?

Can White capture a black pawn en passant on his first move only or on his second move, too, assuming the black pawn wasn’t regularly captured in the first move? If yes to “on the second move,” a precondition must be added that the square moved to for en passant capture must be empty after the first move. For logical consistency, it would also make sense to disallow en passant capture when a piece has moved through the vacant square, which can only happen if White has promoted a pawn.

Can Black capture a white pawn en passant if that pawn was moved on White’s first move? If yes, what if the pawn was moved again?

All in all, it seems to me that Monster Chess rules would be easiest if en passant capture wouldn’t be allowed at all. ― DerSpezialist (talk) 10:31, 14 July 2026 (UTC)