Chess Variant Idea: “Deployment Chess”

After playing bughouse I realized that it would be great to place pieces on the board, not the pieces that were captured. For example, a queen is 9 points. Instead of placing the captured queen, the Deployment Chess Variant would allow to place 9 pawns instead.

Table Of Content

• Rules
• Piece Squads
• Piece Legions
• Costs of Piece Squads and Legions

Rules

The rules of Deployment Chess are simple:

1. Deployment Chess uses all of the chess rules.
2. Each turn both players earn 1 Deployment Point-a point that allows to deploy piece squads.
3. Every material point from captured pieces is converted into Deployment Points.
4. The game is played on a XXL chessboard.
5. A player wins when they checkmate their opponent.
6. When a player hasn’t got enough Deployment Points to deploy a Piece Squad (PS) they can use 2 Deployment Points (DP) to deploy a single piece.
7. A PS is a group of 2-10 pieces and pawns.
8. A Legion (L) is a group of 10-20 pieces. Legions are unlocked (for a game) by paying 10 Deployment Points.

Piece Squads

As we know from above, a piece squad is a group of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or ten pieces. Here are the available PSs:

Stronghold

Shield and Spear

Queen Squad

Escort

Militia

Cheap Militia

Cannons

Cavalry

General

Charging Pawns

Legions

A Legion is a group of 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 or 20 pieces. To unlock Legions (for a game) you need to pay 20 DPs. Here are the available Legions:

Attackers

Riflemen

Knight

Swordsmen

Flanks

Frontal Attack

Legion Variant: Ambush Legion

An Ambush Legion is a legion that deploys some white pieces and some black. Here are the Ambush Legions: