Since no one in his or her right mind would offer themselves up to die after losing a Midnight game, whats the point of playing?
Style. Most people who play games of Midnight Chess usually do so against foes and old enemies whom they do not wish to simply kill, but utterly destroy. Midnight City Chess offers an opportunity for revenge with flair. Combined with the taking of pieces it also offers a more entertaining method of destroying one’s enemy’s power structure and support base. It is, however, for this reason that many games of Midnight Chess are not played with the aim to checkmate the opponent, but are played simply to take all the other pieces and pawns on the board/Board. Thus Midnight Chess is often played with a variation of the usual game; all the moves and rules remain the same as normal except the King cannot be placed in check and need not move out of the way if a position would normally do this. In addition the King may not be taken until all the pieces and pawns in that King’s army have been taken. This variation is basically just a war of attrition which inevitably culminates in a confrontation
