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The University of Tasmania Physics club way back in the early 1990s was a place for all kinds of misfits and bearded eccentrics dressed up in full star trek outfits or medievil battle costumes. Bughouse (known as transfer chess) was a popular game (along with double monopoly etc) and was sometime played with six people. A variant of this called Queue transfer simply meant that the pieces captured were placed in a queue and could only be used by the partner in that order. Double king transfer was another variant in which both enemy kings had to be captured. A team could have its first king literally taken. This led to some very amusing senarios including a player losing all his pieces yet still being in the game! Another variant would get all the points from captures that could be tallied and converted into any piece. A knight was worth 4 points because of its ability to attack unopposed. An interesting variant would be to introduce variant pieces into this equation. ie rook + bishop = chancellor.
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