> If a player only has one move available, that move will always be the top engine move, which loses the game. It's interesting that this brings another degree

> If a player only has one move available, that move will always be the top engine move, which loses the game. It's interesting that this brings another degree of indirection to victory conditions. If you never played chess before, you'd assume the goal is to take the opponent's king. But as we know, making a move that would allow your opponent to take the king is forbidden, so the goal of normal chess is force your opponent into a position where you could take the king next turn (checkmate). This variant takes this another step further: Now any move which could result in checkmate (or check with only one exit) is forbidden, and the goal is to force the opponent in a position where any next move would result in checkmate or check.