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Card 221 of 9992026-08-27 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-27

Dual Life Chess

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Editorial interest 84/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A playable chess variant in which every piece gets two lives, including the kings.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-27 issue.

Field notes

Dual Life Chess changes the basic exchange economy by leaving a first-hit piece wounded on the board instead of removing it. The homepage describes a king that can survive one fatal attack and an engine that searches nine plies with alpha-beta pruning, quiescence search, a transposition table, and square evaluation. Visitors can enter a human lobby, play the engine, watch engine-versus-engine games, or inspect an ongoing match move by move.

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○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use

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