Protest Chess

If you have ever played Chess then you have wished that either you or your opponent did not make a certain move.    The ability to take back a move in Chess is usually limited to handicap games and even then the number of "take-backs" is limited.  Protest Chess gives each person the "right" to protest each move.  While you may think that this "protest" feature will make for "easier" games, be warned ........... Protest Chess will "tax" your chess skills and create new thinking patterns.   Examples of finished and ongoing games are linked below as well as links to the current players, handicapping techniques, and effects of PC on the "personality".  ENJOY

Rules of Protest Chess (PC) by Franz Patocka and Guenter Haika
Regelkunde des Protestschach (PS), von Franz Patocka and Günter Haika
(translated by GKHaika)

1. The general FIDE rules of chess apply.

Note: Impossible or disallowed move such as castling across a square controlled by the opponent remain impossible or disallowed in PC..
We do play Protest CHESS after all, not Protest Monte.

2. After each move the opponent may ("may", not "must"!) protest once against the transmitted move.

Note: This means ONE option to protest PER MOVE.

Note 2: When promoting a pawn, the opponent may either protest the move itself, which means the pawn cannot be promoted in the alternate move, or against the piece chosen for promotion, which means the pawn must promote, but an alternate promotion piece must be chosen.

3. Notation of a protest should be as such: The vetoed move is to be repeated in [square parentheses] and marked by a capitalized "P".

Example: Transmitted move: 1.e4
Protesting reply: 1.[e4 P]
Action to be taken by White: Go study another opening!

4. No protest can be filed against a protest.

Note: If after the opponent's protest one is left without legal alternate moves, the game is lost. Tough luck, pal!

Example: The white Queen captures the pawn h7, checking the Kh8. Black plays KxQh7. White replies [KxQh7 P]. If now Black has no other option to remove the white Queen, he is left without a move and thus mated. (See the example game PS 1)***

*** We are currently debating whether a situation like this without the King being checked should result in loss or draw (stalemate). We will revise this "note" according to our decision in a few days.

5. As soon as a player transmits a move in reply to an original move of the opponent, the right to protest against the opponents original move is forfeited.

Note: But of course the player has the right to protest the next move, and also the right to forfeit the right to protest again for the next move..

6. Transmitting optional continuations is prohibited.

Note: But of course. It's no fun if a player receives a twenty page analysis with all the possible protests / non-protests / alternates .. blablabla.

Go see a sample Protest Chess Game

Watch Guenter's Black Vulture Attack
September 1, 1999

This link is best viewed with a "High Speed" Connection,
otherwise it will take a few minutes to load.

Watch the test that the most recent
Protest Chess Master Canidate Passed

 
Go see a Battle of Protest Chess Masters in 1914
Capablanca vs Nimzowitsch
You will find out: Who won the game and who won the fight.

Go to the Players Gallery of Protest Chess
September 1, 1999 

Go to the Famous PC Players "Want-a-Be" Page
September 1, 1999 

Go to the Protest Chess Handicapping Page
September 1, 1999

 
Go view insights into the effects of Protest Chess
September 1, 1999

Go view Slick Willie's Want-a-Be Protest Chess Page
September 1, 1999

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