Robbery victory
As Beraubungssieg at is called board games a special kind of victory a game. In general, it means: a player has lost so many stones as a result of the course of the game that he no longer has the opportunity to win this game or to achieve a draw. This means that the other participant has won the game.
In older chess variants, such as in Arabic Schatrandsch or in Grande Acedrex , it is considered a victory if one side, apart from the kings, only keeps one stone more than the other, even if it cannot mate with it. This was due to the fact that with the stones specified in the respective regulations, especially the various jumpers, a mate was difficult to achieve.
In modern chess, on the other hand, such an end of the game is counted as a draw , because there are significantly more options for mating . However, prominent players from the first half of the twentieth century, such as B. the then world chess champion Emanuel Lasker or the chess masters or grandmasters Aaron Nimzowitsch , Rudolf Spielmann and Richard Réti , for the reintroduction of the robbery victory (and the stalemate victory) as a regular victory instead of a draw, but with less value than a mate or a Abandonment of the lot. Recently (June 2015) the correspondence chess grandmaster Arno Nickel took up this idea again in an open letter to the World Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF).
In other board games, the robbery victory is still counted as a victory, even if it is not explicitly called a “robbery victory”. This is e.g. This is the case , for example, in a game of mills : if a player only has two stones left, he can no longer set up a "mill" and consequently cannot take away any opposing stones. The game is then won for the other playing partner.
The checkers game (see diagram on the right) continues until the last stone is lost.
Numerical superiority is not a guarantee of victory in these games.
literature
- Heinz Machatschek , Ticket to Ride - The Magic World of Board Games , New Life Publishing House , Berlin 1972
- Richard Réti, The new ideas in the game of chess, revised new edition of the 1922 edition, Jens-Erik Rudolph Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941670-01-3
- Rudolf Spielmann, A sightseeing flight through the world of chess, revised new edition of the 1929 edition, Jens-Erik Rudolph Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941670-39-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ No more half a point for the draw? . ChessBase GmbH. July 2, 2015. Accessed January 24, 2019.