i m seeing so many disturb NCP i mean unbalance wall block and starting position and using variant pieces which most of them are not comfortable playing. i m giving base of custom broad you can do work on i m also posting these because my next NCP is based on these.
these again is my 2 year old work. even before variant piece came out.
so probably any one who first attempt create gird might face common problem of not able to use rook ,queen white bishop, black bishop or in some case knight same time ! so problem solved i m calling these as 4x4 grid because it allow only 4 moves max any normal chess piece including knight i m count as 4 . and take these as extra cheese you add on you position so if you got a just starting position just apply these grid filter on it you can also off center shift the pattern it has own its fun i 1st created off center then i relished its off center!
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[StartFen4 "R-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0,0,0,0-0-3,yN,yN,yQ,yK,X,yR,yB,yB,3/3,yR,1,X,4,X,3/3,X,4,X,5/bB,X,4,X,4,X,gR,gN/bB,3,X,4,X,3,gN/bR,1,X,4,X,4,X,gQ/X,4,X,4,X,2,gK/bK,2,X,4,X,4,X/bQ,X,4,X,4,X,1,gR/bN,3,X,4,X,3,gB/bN,bR,X,4,X,4,X,gB/5,X,4,X,3/3,X,4,X,1,rR,3/3,rB,rB,rR,X,rK,rQ,rN,rN,3"][Variant "Teams"][RuleVariants "EnPassant"][CurrentMove "0"]
i m taking random simply example add these flavor grid on king safety would look like these
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center design for king of hill the same idea from above grid these is center for king of hill is used and i saw some of them using these design probably someone saw that from my custom broad in past
i do not think stand alone 4x4 grid is much fun so i probably not post it as NCP! also due to pawns i can not figure out starting position with grid due to wall block coming but anyone come with standalone 4x4 grid do tell i all post as NCP based on that