Talk:Crazyhouse

message: In the sample game to the right in the article, the black king moves into check by the white bishop. MizardX (talk) 20:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that the way it's annotated, there's supposed to be a black pawn at g7 until the final move when White takes it. Evercat (talk) 17:57, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That is correct. Thank you for pointing that out. The picture says white’s second move is Bxg7. The x means capture. Therefore, the bishop captures the black pawn at g7. --Mschribr (talk) 02:30, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The sample game 

message: Am I right in thinking that checkmate must involve one of:
# A piece in contact giving check
# A knight giving check
# The defender having no material in hand?
i.e. a range check that would normally be checkmate can still be blocked, is that correct? Evercat (talk) 23:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Checkmate 

message: Who is stronger in Crazyhouse, humans or computers? Mschribr (talk) 15:03, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think humans beat computers as of now. There is a "critterbot" engine on FICS which has about 2500 rating but I will need to search more. panefsky (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 16:44, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are Computers or Humans Stronger? 

message: What are the state-space complexity and the game tree size of a Crazyhouse? Mschribr (talk) 23:01, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be much greater than real chess. After exchanges have been made, and since one can drop a piece anywhere on the board, there should be more than 40 moves per turn. panefsky (talk) 17:48, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game complexity 

message: Is there a crazyhouse federation? Are there crazyhouse tournaments? How many people play crazyhouse? Mschribr (talk) 19:54, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, there are technically tournaments all the time on chess servers like lichess, chess.com, and FICS, but they're informal and don't typically mean anything more than any other games on those servers. There have also been bigger, more organized tournaments, including several claiming to be "world championships" and the like, but as there's no central organizing body, there are no "official" championships outside of individual chess servers. Examples: chess.com, lichess... can't find a link to the FICS tournaments, but they happened pretty regularly, I think, between ~1998-2008. It's also entirely online, afaik, since it's among the harder variants to play over the board. As for number of players. My sense is the most popular place for crazyhouse now is lichess, where there have been about 3800 zh players in the past week. That's far more than FICS ever had, to be sure (and FICS used to be the most popular place for it). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  How popular is crazyhouse? 

message: Wikipedia typically doesn't cover something just because it exists. For a tournament/match/whatever to be included on wikipedia it should receive secondary source coverage. That's how we separate notable events from some get-together at the local library. The massive tables in this article are a big WP:WEIGHT problem... — Rhododendrites talk \\ 04:03, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: A year and a half later, the section has only grown and still not any secondary sources. Removed. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  tables/results 

message: Not a reliable source, but here's what Larry Kaufman said on a forum post:  Double sharp (talk) 18:14, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Result