You can help out by making a small donation or by using this site's affiliate links when you shop at or. This site is supported by advertising and by donations. Unfixable problem, this will probably be a great game. Crowds are dangerousīecause a crowd capture will set more than one piece careening, at Careening pieces have, inĮffect, been captured, but they can be saved. Pieces moveįreely about the board, unblocked by friend or foe, and can formĬrowds at will meanwhile, some of the pieces are out of control,Ĭareening towards the edge and extinction. The attraction of the game is its unusual character. Square further than it would have been or, you can change its If you send it in the same direction it was going, it's one I should say explicitly that yes, you can 'capture' an enemy careening ((Instead, 3 a4 and 4 a5 can be played to It has been demonstrated that the Knight's silly attack was silly īut if careening pieces had the ability to make their normal moves,ģ Nb6xa8 would be strong. That 'Careening pieces cannot make their normal moves' makes itĪfter 1 Nc3 e5 2 Nd5 d5 ((the Nd5 isn't displaced because the Pĭidn't use a capture power to reach d5)) 3 Nc7(c7-d7) It's a good game or not, or even a playable one, although I think I consider this game incomplete because it hasn't been tested it'sĬomplex enough that I can't simply think about it and say whether Kind of capture, momentum, falling off, and multiple pieces on the Simple in its conception, but the 'simple concept' involves a new It took a lot of words to lay out the rules for a game that seems so You can't pass if you have any legal move. Game is usually trivial to calculate (there's a logic puzzle here). This can only happen ifĪll of your pieces are careening, in which case the outcome of the If you have no legal move, you simply pass. To), but it still has momentum and will fall off the edge next turn White's careening pieces move after White's turn, and Black'sĬareening pieces move after Black's turn.Ĭareening pieces do not stop when they run into other pieces,īecause in this game any number of pieces may be on the same squareĪt the same time, and any piece may freely move onto any occupiedĪ careening Pawn may promote (its owner chooses what it promotes Stop a careening piece is to move a friendly piece onto the same Like a normal capture until you peek down at the floor and see allĬareening pieces cannot make their normal moves. Your victim can be pushed directly off the edge. Special case, when you displace a piece at the edge of the board, Moving because of momentum are called ' careening' pieces.

In the direction they were displaced pieces that are In other words, you displace them from the square, and they then Moves they continue to move one square in the same direction. Them or a different direction for each of them), and on subsequent One square in any direction (it can be the same direction for all of Pieces are not removed from the board instead, they are each moved When you make a move that would ordinarily be a capture, the enemy Opponent's King fall off the edge of the board, somewhat like There is no such thing as check instead, you win by making your In the game of Falling Off, there are no captures, and therefore This page is written by the game's inventor, Ralph Betza. Please report anything needing fixing with a comment to the homepage. I don't think I'd generally put myself in a position of a potential fall if I can help it (like riding mental horses), now I'm 'old' it bloody hurts falling off nowadays! Since I had my son, my body is screwed! I got thrown off a pony I was backing just after I had my son twice in quite a spectacular way which seriously hurt and then last year came off my 17.1hh warmblood showjumping - as a result of these I now have a permanently numb hip and a shoulder lower than the other! I count myself very lucky though TBH! Everyone has to fall off sometimes, it keeps us grounded (pardon the pun!).The site has moved to a new server, and there are now some issues to fix. then surely your chances are higher? Although saying that, I evented and show jumped one of my (now retired) horses for 9 years - was chucked off probably about 10 times in the first 6 months but after that I only remember coming off him once due to a tack malfunction and he's as sharp as they come. It depends what you do though surely, like if you ride several horses a day or you compete etc. I can probably remember most times I've fallen off, I don't make a habit of it.

I know of a few people who seem to fall off the majority of the time at events, I find them pretty amazing as I don't think I'd have a shred of confidence left after such regular falls. I don't know anyone who has never fallen off unless they simply haven't been riding very long.

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