Talk:Human chess

Wizard's chess could be added to this article perhaps. ChessCreator (talk) 15:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

19th Century History
I've located some accounts of 19th Century Human Chess matches. The matches were performed in theaters.Graham1973 (talk) 13:44, 11 June 2011 (UTC)


 * @Graham1973. Alr but if I could ask who moves the chess pieces? JanWithoutAPlan (talk) 22:05, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Something's Fishy
"Piece captures are represented by choreographed fights that determine whether the piece is actually taken or not." How would this work? If a piece moves onto another pieces square, it's captured. It's completely deterministic, the stage fight wouldn't deliver the capture information, the piece's movement would. For example, if a pawn moves to another pawn's square, and they have a stage fight, the moving pawn should always win. So what is there to determine? Are the rules of the variant of Human Chess being talked about somehow different from Inanimate Chess? Minorfixaccount (talk) 06:30, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

The fight appears to be for entertainment purposes only! I might try and edit the wording to make that clearer. 82.24.207.246 (talk) 10:30, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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Cosplay chess links
I've done some brutal editing in the link section; everything that related to cosplay chess was either dead, of questionable relevance or a decade old. I replaced them with the first con page I could find that had both an in-game picture and an explanation of the concept. If anyone can find something better, that isn't just a list of requirements for people applying to play, please add it! I also thought it was worth adding a gameplay video, the one I used is pretty entertaining and seems typical to this non-expert. 82.24.207.246 (talk) 10:25, 13 April 2019 (UTC)