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Bill: Full Contact Chess
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Market Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2044
Description[?]:
| WHEREAS chess is our national sport, WHEREAS a sport requires physical exertion, RECOGNIZING that chess currently requires almost no physical exertion, NOW THEREFORE chess shall require full contact during play. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The official national sport.
Old value:: Chess
Current: Fotbal/Futbola
Proposed: Full Contact Chess
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | Craziness. We still propose Rugby. However, if you could accuratly describe this Contact Chess, we may be interested. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | Wow, I can totally envision full contact chess. I like it. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Alderdath Lebrali Demkratti | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | can I inquire what Full Contact Chess would be like |
| Date | not recorded | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | Basically, while you are trying to make your move your opponent can attack you. Anybody who messes up the board loses. Each player would be given 5 seconds unopposed to make their move, but the rest of the time they will be fighting. Oh yeah, and if you are knocked out then you obviously lose. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | If anybody has any better suggestions for how the game should be played then let me know. I just liked the sound of it. ;) |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | Hey, this sounds fun. Sort of chess meets boxing. |
| Date | 09:44:59, April 27, 2005 CET | From | Alderdath Lebrali Demkratti | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | go Full Contact Chess :) |
| Date | 01:04:24, April 29, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | I was thinking you might make it into a sort of battle-strategy game where the outcome of a move isn't predetermined. Maybe so you would have a life-size board, and the pieces would be actual people - your team mates. When a piece attacks another piece, they would have to literally force the other player out of the square to capture them. And perhaps we could build in some mechanism of ocassional retreats and supported defenses and such. I don't know. The master strategist of the team would play as the king, who would have to issue orders from on the field. They wouldn't have an overhead view of the opponents' positions, and would have to rely on their advance pieces to serve as scouts to see things from different angles and relay that information back to them. |
| Date | 03:34:00, April 29, 2005 CET | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | That actually sounds really cool. We should do that. |
| Date | 08:55:56, April 29, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the Full Contact Chess |
| Message | I'm really tempted to try setting up a match. I'd need a lot of people for a full game though. And I figured out how assisted attacks and defenses would work. So the way any attack would work is when you moved a piece to a square occupied by an opposing piece, you would have essentially a sumo wrestling sort of fight to see who got pushed out of the square first. Now if this fight was taking place in a square that was next to other occupied squares, the occupants of those squares could stand at the edge of their square and try to help keep their guy in and help get the opponent out. This is the greatest national sport ever. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 137 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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