Clarify game objectives

[awolfe9]

So in Dunsany's chess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsany%27s_chess), the white objective is to checkmate the king still, and the black objective is to capture all pawns. Currently we have a "Protect Objective" game objective and a "Capture All [of type]". It seems like we should replace the "Protect" with "Capture opponent's objective piece", right? This way the black team can still try to capture all the pawns, and the pawns can try to capture the king. I guess we can have the white team "capture all of type king," but this seems silly. Also, we currently require exactly one objective piece to be placed per team. So we currently can't create variants with no objective piece.

Also if you choose capture all of type, there is no choice for the Piece Type.

I was thinking through this and how you could best represent this to a user just for Classic chess rules. "Protecting" the objective makes sense, but that is only part of your objective. Your real objective is to defeat the other team by preventing their objective. So it's a two-fold rule.

Question is, how do you represent that to a user to choose from? Basically their objective is "Protect your objective and make the other teams objective fail"

[drewhannay]

Seems like preventing the other team from reaching their objective should be implicitly understood. Is there ever a situation where you WOULDN'T be trying to prevent the other team from winning?

You could create a scenario where you win and the other team's objective is meaningless to you (e.g. Lose all Pieces and Protect Objective).

For classic chess I would argue that your "objective" is to capture the other team's king and you have a loss condition of losing your own king. Does that make sense as a different way to display the information?