Invented in 1899, by Henry Michael Temple (South-Africa).
Implemented
by Andreas Kaufmann
(January 2003).
Everything
as in standard chess, but you see only own pieces and don't know how the
opponent moves. On each move you can touch any of your pieces to see all of its
possible moves. This gives you some information about the position of opponent
pieces. If you are given a check (you may not see this), only moving of the
King will be allowed.
Kriegspiel
is a quite popular chess variant. For more information and links, see web-page on Chessvariants site.
When playing this game, please switch off the move list (in 'View'
menu). You should
also switch off 'Smart moves' ('View'/'Options'/'Board'). In classical
Kriegspiel both players don't see enemy pieces, but in this implementation, the
computer actually does. This makes a computer very strong opponent. You can
select easier variants of game: Black without Queen, Queen and Rook or Queen
and two Rooks. Alternatively you can select variant when only King or Queen is
invisible.
You can get
one interesting variation of Kriegspiel, if you switch on option
'Show'/'Attacks' from context menu. Black circles will show positions to where
you can move, red one will show position occupied by
enemy pieces, which you can capture. For after game replay, press 'Switch Piece
Set' button. All pieces in alternative piece set are intentionally visible to
let you see what happened in the reality.
There 9
variants in zrf file: