Talk:Marshal and Tim Play a Game of Chess/@comment-31584402-20180502141118/@comment-28266772-20180503091522

You might have been playing suicide chess. I played it a lot in school because the games are much quicker to play and so can be knocked out in a 40 minute lesson slot. It's popular in schools and work places where you can't easily take 1-4 hours to play a full game. In suicide chess the King is demoted to a standard piece, so the queen really does become the most vital piece.