Kung-fu Chess - Game Styles

Game Styles

There are several game styles of Kung-Fu Chess, all based on the same principle of a real-time gameplay, i.e. both players playing simultaneously and can move several pieces at the same time.

Standard - The standard Kung-Fu Chess is one-on-one match, with average speed of the pieces' movements ("speed") and the time they are delayed until they can be moved again ("delay"). These two parameters are always set to 1.0 in an official standard match. Match is over when one of the players gets to capture his opponent's king.

Fast Four Way - Competes the Standard style for "the most popular Kung-Fu Chess game style", probably with success. Fast Four Way (a.k.a. "F4W", "FFW") is a match between four players on a four-way board similar to the Four-Handed chess board, when the goal is again the eliminate your opponents' kings, as it goes by the principle of "last man standing".
The major difference in this game style in addition to its being a four-player match, is that it is ten times faster than the Standard game style in terms of both piece movement and delay (set to 0.1), and therefore F4W games are characterized with more action and speed rather than strategy in the Standard style.

Standard and Fast Four Way are the two only official styles that were available at Shizmoo for the nonsubscribers players (free users). By official, it means a player is being rated by playing this game style, and can have a different rank at Standard than at Fast Four Way. Although the official game styles have their constant settings for Speed and Delay, these parameters can be changed in friendly matches. This option created another popular style entitled "Fast 2 Ways" - for players who loved the extreme speed of the F4W but did not want to play with 3 opponents. Nevertheless this game style had never become official, nor as popular as the Standard and the F4W were.

Crazyhouse - Crazyhouse is an official game style available only for subscribed players at Shizmoo. The principle is the same as the original chess variant, captured pieces can be used in the board again by the player who captures them, but alongside the real-time feature of the Kung-Fu Chess of course. The speed is average, but a bit quicker than the Standard style, however the captured pieces move slower than the original pieces in the match.

Bughouse - A Crazyhouse for four players playing simultaneously, Bughouse is the second subscribers-only game style, as there are two matches of one-on-one being played the same time, and each captured piece is moved to the hands of the teammate of the capturing player, in the neighbor board. It is a pairs match and the first player to eliminate his opponent's king wins for himself and his partner.

Subscribed members could build new game styles, set new rules and principles, and not only change the speed parameters of the official forms, and thus other chess vaiants were created in a Kung-Fu Chess style, but only these four official game style mentioned above were rated.