Two Brains

Today we played "Two Brains". Two brains is a game of non-conventional chess. I know two more games of non-conventional chess but they are not held in much regard by chess players. That is because these games do not train one in chess, they rather untrain one. But "Two Brains" is an interesting chess training. It is as if you have to solve a chess problem in each move.

There is one chessboard, 4 players and two teams. One team (2 players) take the black and the other the white. Each team player has to play every second move of the team without co-operation among them. That means that if your partner plays a weird move you have to figure out why he played it and what plan he has, so that you wont spoil it.

This game is very interesting among players of same strength. The bad thing about playing with the same people all the time (like in our club) is that you slowly learn the openings and the style your friends play and you can face them more easily.