New series genre: Parry Series (pser-*)!

[Cornel]

In the July-September 2009 issue of StrateGems (SG47), Dan Meinking introduced a new "hybrid" genre named "Parry Series". Probably not the first one to think about this, but the first one to make it public, nevertheless! In a nutshell, a parry series-mover alters the standard [series] rules, prior to the last move, as follows:

• the series-side may give check during the series
• when checked, the idle-side must immediate "parry" the threat
• after a check-and-parry, the series-side continues the series

The article can be downloaded in PDF format from here.

I find the new genre interesting and it definitely opens the door to new territories in the series-mover field. Of course, Popeye cannot solve pser-* yet, but Dan has already submitted a feature request, and hopefully it will be implemented soon. Down the road, if there is interest, we can have a workshop or a "longest parry series" tournament!

Let me know what you think!