[JonathanMerklin]

I propose the alternative that death is instant disqualification regardless of game state, which incentivises murder as a strategy and adds an additional psychological tax but also a necessity to resolve disputes in a way that really makes the Han/Greedo distinction an important one and would make for a fun "spaghetti western involving but not necessarily for intellectuals" flick.

(EDIT: I hope the jest is clear. Murder is bad.)

[inglor_cz]

Which in the context of chess is extra funny, as the game is basically an abstracted battlefield and losses of figures are abstracted deaths.

Even the expression for the end of the game, shah mat = the king is dead (in Persian).

[KineticLensman]

> spaghetti western involving but not necessarily for intellectuals

It would have be scored by Ennio Morricone, who was passionate about chess: "When I was a kid I had two ambitions, to become either a physician, or a chess player, not a musician." [0]

[0] https://www.chess.com/blog/RoaringPawn/in-memoriam-ennio-mor...