If you have no moves, you lose. (You only have a king left and can't move anywhere with it) I actually learned this first, so imagine my confusion when I played western Chess and someone told me now it's a tie!
The other big gotcha is kings cannot have a direct line of sight to each other. Unfortunately, this is how I inadvertently lost a game of western Chess because I had accidentally ported over this rule in my head.
jcsalterego|15 years ago