Actually a great modernization of the game, the two sides want to wage war or battle over the crown but politics prevents it unless they deal with politicians first.
Also incredibly boring, though.
I want a piece that can push other pieces, friendly or not
The Cardinal.
Unending has a bunch of piece-pushing (and you must get enemies to push each other for you to survive)!
Does it get in the way and slow things down, or does it offer protection to allies while they batttle the opposition?
No but it can sacrifice 4 pawns to replace the king
duck chess
yep
Emergency teleporter. Once, when the king is in check and hasn’t moved from its initial square, the Emergency teleporter may swap positions with the king. Cannot otherwise move. (Unclear what starting position it should have. Maybe b or e 2/7? Maybe players pick in secret before game starts?)
Emergency teleporter.
This gives me PTSD.
Why? Is it because you were forced to use a teleporter? How many times do we have to tell you that the original Steve Dice’s absence gives your life meaning? Why we can barely even remember how his eyes were just a little brighter than yours.
Oh it’s from a game or something isn’t it. Never mind.
Nah, because I played YuGiOh during ~2008.
Isn’t that just the duck mode on chess.com?
Which is fun but it needs more player.
Yup.
The spy. It takes the form of one of your pawns but only you know which pawn is the spy.
If the spy kills a piece the way a regular pawn does, it ceases being a spy and reverts to bring a regular pawn.
If you position the spy on one side of an enemy piece with another of your pawns on the other side of it, you can recruit the piece as a pawn on your side (regardless of what class it was)
Kings and Queens are immune to spies.
When a spy is killed, any pieces it recruited are reverted to enemy pawns.
A similar variation is hidden queens
If we are modding chess.
Make board 10x10 add two pawns, and add a prince and princess.
Cross between king/knight/pawn and queen/pawn.
Prince moves like knight but only into an unoccupied square, takes like a king, but only moves forward like a pawn, can move back one square when taking.
Princess moves like a queen but only forward, like a pawn.
Princess moves like a queen but only forward, likes pawn.
So…forward or diagonal but not sideways or backward? Interesting, does she take a crown at the end?
I think side ways is OK. No backwards.
Haven’t thought it through too much, promotion would have to be play tested.
I like this idea, think if we can already have the king switch with the rook, maybe a similar mechanic with the princess sort of summoning the queen to blast everyone or vice versa
The Tank
Replaces a knight
moves like a rook, captures like a pawn.
can’t be captured except by a knight or a tank.
The Oligarch
While still standing, can force any non-pawn, non-oligarch piece on the opposite side to preform one move on their choice per turn.
The Landlord
Can claim any spot on the board as their own displacing the existing piece there and forcing it to move. If the piece has no viable move, they are just culled.
Both of these are waaaaaay to strong. Landlord just “culls” the Queen first turn. Or why not just the king?
Oligarch may also may just end in repeated moves. White uses oligarch to move black piece to bad position. Black moves same piece to good position again. One round wasted without any change to board.
Also, chess is based on the premise that you have to move a piece every turn and if you can’t, the game is a draw. Both of your pieces work by not moving.
The Landlord: any square it touches becomes blocked and can no longer be used in the match. It can start from any square and then move to any square adjacent to any square in it’s domain.
“No, you’re doing it wrong”
The toilet’s always leaking, but it’s because you’re not flushing correctly.
it starts out only being able to move every x turns, but as it gains squares, it speeds up
Exponentially!
Can it be captured?
Yes, the usage would be to block pieces in a way that won’t get it caught.
Yes, but the capturing piece is out of use for 5 turns whilst the terms of capture are fleshed out
The Trebuchet…
non-attacking movement is limited to one square,
it cannot attack for one turn after moving or attacking,
it can attack any piece that is exactly 5 squares away,
it returns to the square it attacks from
So it must be almost in a corner, because the distance of 5 is only x +/-5 or y +/-5
Or is it Manhattan distance?
Does it count as 5 squares away if its 4 in one direction and 3 perpendicular to that?
You can call it Vogon Chess.
Would Vogons even like Chess, or any game that didn’t involve smashing something to bits and eating it?
I imagine to get a Vogon to play Chess, you would have to get a specially requested form signed in triplicate across 12 different divisions of the Chess Department (A sub-department of the Entertainment and Leisure Department, a department that only one middle manager knows about, and he’s on Annual Leave today), one for each type of piece for the game, and again for each colour. After a period of 18 months they will maybe approve your request for the forms you need to fill in to request a game of Chess with one specific Vogon, who will then be asked to fill in another form (also signed in triplicate) to accept the challenge.
By the time you get to actually sitting down to start the chess match, you realise you didn’t mention on the form who was going to go first, so you have to pack everything up and start the process all over again!
You’d have a faster and livelier time playing 6 hour session of Monopoly with humans from this backwater planet
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits. On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer.
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and stipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t!
My ears! My eyes!
The Heir. Moves like a queen, but only captures as a Knight. Takes the place of the bishop of your choice at the beginning of the game.
