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Add Losers Chess?

I'm talking about the variant where the king cannot be taken and check as well as castling exist. Captures are forced. You win by getting mated or losing all material (I forget about the treatment of stalemate here).
I think the worry is that if they added it it would split the antichess players between this and anti, killing both variants
they've co-existed on a bunch of other servers and play very differently. I wouldn't be overly worried about cannibalization
#1 How do you lose by having all your pieces captured if you can't capture the King?

#3 "But somebody else does it" isn't a very compelling argument to have lichess start doing something. Ex: If 5 other chess servers started having ads on there site, would you suggest lichess start having ads?

I think it would take less time to solve this variant than it did to solve anti-chess.
P.S. Can you name somewhere that has it? I don't doubt you, just want to see the variant.
Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) probably the easiest place to check. ICC should have it as well but that is a pay site
@GrandLapin Thank you. I submitted the application for a new account and waiting on approval. Will check it out after (if) it approves me.
The solution to that variant will be much harder than that of antichess.
@GrandLapin You win if you get stalemated on FICS.
I haven't played it for ages though.
I stopped the process when I realized that FICS was an app I had to download instead of a web-page.

From the sounds of it, there are more ways to end "Losers Chess" as opposed to Anti-Chess. You can simply play Losers Chess until you either lose all your pieces, or, checkmate your opponent first. Makes it easier to solve, to me.

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