This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Bughouse of Skullport

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

When you compare a chess variant to a board game expansion - not in a favorable way. From our episode with Dalton Chavez

The king always has three options to get out of check. He can either move out of the way. He can block it with the piece, or he can simply take the piece that is checking him. We go with the ABC acronym, Avoid block capture. Avoid block capture. And it's only when we cannot avoid block capture. That is the only way to actually checkmate somebody. Also, another problem that kids seem to have is you can never willingly move your own king and do check.

Yes, yes, that's an illegal move. Yeah, I've got a lot of lawbreakers in our clubs who love to make illegal moves. Also, kids love to take the king if they see that they can and they will just snatch it right up. That's another thing. That's another thing that's, well, one of the reasons I don't like Bookhouse, is that's, which, for the end, initiate, is a two-board variance where you're swapping, where you catch your piece and you swap it to the guy next to you and they can put it on the board. it's A, kids get loud when they play this

B, you have to pretty much yell at then, hey, reset your board. All right. And it reinforces the idea with them that it's okay to take the king. It is not okay to take the king in standard chess. You are just

looking for checkmates. Yeah. They're looking to be sneaky or to distract their opponent when it's much more rewarding to actually correctly checkmate somebody and yeah try to make an example of that I like to so I'm a board gamer

outside of a chess and one of the games I like that actually got me into the hobby is called Lords of Waterty which is a D&D themed worker placement game our major friend Mike T has this game as well

but he has the expansion the scouncers of skull parts which I don't particularly care for. Podcast is like the Scounters at Skull Port. Ah, uh-huh. It's taking something beautiful and, uh, you know, yeah. Adding, putting it in M.S. paint and letting the smear function go right.

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