Extinction chess [SEP] discoverer or inventor
Extinction chess
Extinction chess is a chess variant invented by R. Wayne Schmittberger, editor of "Games" magazine, in 1985. Instead of checkmate as the winning condition, the object of the game is the elimination of all of a particular kind of piece of the opponent. In other words, the objective is any of the following:
- capture the opponent's king;
- capture the opponent's queen;
- capture both of the opponent's rooks;
- capture both of the opponent's bishops
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