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What will happen if Shogi pawns are replaced by chess pawns?

Variant chess is true to its name

8 Player Chess White moves first then turn order goes clockwise. Pawns promote on the 11th rank. There was keen interest in the game idea when I first posted this so I've made a club for peeps to play correspondence games. We use a system of editing board images in order to play... it can take a while for games to get going but it's still early days and we are hopeful that we can play on a proper server one day (2 of our members is currently developing an app :0 ). There are 3 main gamemodes: FFA - Free for all. Everyone for themselves in a battle to win the most points. FFT - Free for teams. 2v2v2v2. 4 teams of 2 battle it out to win the most points for their team. Teams - 4v4. 2 teams of 4 battle it out to be the first team to checkmate 2 (or 3) opponents. We are hoping one day our game will be made and exist as a server here on Chess.com and the only way we can do this is by convincing the website developers and staff that this is something people want to get made. To that end I ask you to join and come play games with us in the forum-image editing format that we currently use, but also to join even if you don't want to play using the forums because it will help us get one step closer to seeing this game manifest itself as an immediately playable variant game in the future. You can check out the 8 player chess club here. Alternatively, you can join the 8 player chess club here. Thank you for reading. - Eldar

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anyone wanna help me think up the variant turtle chess? if so then lemme know in the forum and ill DM you a link to the turtle chess dev club

"The theory of Neomedievalism proposes that the international system is rapidly transforming into a world order similar to that which existed in Medieval Europe, with overlapping structures of authority and multiple loyalties of international actors, which is gradually eroding the power and agency of nation states. There are two imagined futures in a Neomedieval worldview: one, of a coming anarchy, an era of systemic breakdown and perpetual wars; the second of a New Universalism in which new transnational regimes, which are secular version of the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire, will be constructed to bring order to the world. In an addendum to the presentation, I discuss the emergence of Cyberspace as a realm where we might already be seeing Neomedieval structures of power developing and influencing the trajectory of global politics." Geopoliticus, Neo-Medievalism and the New Worid Order, YouTube It may sound far-fetched, but if the Neomedieval theory about geopolitics proves correct, maybe the next age of Western chess is to be ruled by a game paced similarly to Chaturanga (Shatranj) without the practically omnipotent Queen. The key difference with the old Chaturanga (Shatranj) may be that it is a hexagonal game. To name this game, I propose that we take the Sanskrit word which sounds closest to "Shatranj", Shashanga, meaning "six limbs", as in the six sides of a hexagon. In the spirit of the old Chaturanga, the game may have a board with four corners and move possibilities more akin to Chaturanga as a result of the board’s topology. The move possibilities will be ones which notate like chess so that the Bishop maintains the property of being able to move along orthogonal axes.

Hey guys! A month or two ago, I proposed an idea to you all called Ahab Chess, and I got a lot of really positive feedback. Since then, I also found another member @arctevious_the_3rd who independently came up with an idea very similar to mine, and we decided to team up and work together to develop Ahab Chess. But we can't do it alone. We need your help to test this variant! To that end, I created a new club: Ahab Chesshttps://www.chess.com/club/ahab-chess If we ever hope to convince the Variants Admins, CGAs, and developers to include Ahab Chess on the Variants server, then we'll need lots of strong data, a definite set of rules, and a decent amount of interest and involvement from the variants-players community. So please join the Ahab Chess club in order to play test games and give feedback on the rules! Thanks in advance for joining and helping us out! If you have any questions, you can ask in the comments below or in the Ahab Chess club. (This message has been pre-approved by Variants administration XD)

Currently in setup chess, the only limits to what pieces you can place (in standard setup chess, or any other setup chess variant) are which pieces the player can choose from, and the total number of points of material he’s allowed to have. My suggestion is to add a third limit, where you can set a cap on each specific piece. For example, each player can choose: No more than 2 Queens No more than 4 Rooks No more than 4 Knights No more than 4 Bishops No more than 16 pawns 1 King (mandatory) Total piece value must not exceed 39 points (not including king For variants using the Setup Chess rule, the creator of the variant could place these limits however high or low he wants.

i propose to make new variant similar to atomic chess, but it is a bit different. when you eat a piece with your peice, your pice explodes like a nuclear bomb and leaves radiation After a real nucliear explosion, the radiation stays there for a while and police does not let anybody in that zone until the radiation is gone. So the radiation will stay unrtil another ten moves are made. The radiation is invisible. There are maximum 4 squeres with radiation. If there are already four radioactive squeres both players can not eat a piece unti a squere is no more radioactive. And a precision, if you are check and your only move is to eat a peice but all 4 squeres are allready radioactive, it is a checkmate.

ok so I thought up a variant called "frog chess" basically the frog is a piece that starts on the c1-c8 squares (takes place of the c-knights). the way it moves is 1-2 squares FORWARD in any direction so it cant go back, but you can rotate the frog it takes a turn. now I am gonna try to explain the way it captures in the least confusing way i can. it captures by hopping over a piece and landing on a vacant square like a checker piece but can capture forward. it can only hop in the direction its pointed. now the frog has a special ability i call it "leapfrogging" it can capture up to 2 times in a row kinda the same a checker piece i think the frog would be worth like 7 points.let me know in comments what you think it should be worth if this post gets 12 thumbs ups/upvotes ill make a club that will focus on developing this variant. if you think anything is wrong/unbalanced/could be better please let me know. and also if you have any questions i will be happy to answer. and one last thing, if you took the time to read this paragraph thanks a ton.

Here is a chess variant that focuses mainly on creating/balancing new chess mechanics for fairy pieces. If you're ever short on mechanics feel free to find them here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j_NgHGGbUf_fiY1YQaB_koYyDbfeBKAVFg8nocXKYk8/edit?usp=drive_link Table of Contents with all of the Champions(fairy pieces): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VXzHOmbXIdK4S6e8V6mrswbSps4ZwwVB?usp=drive_link

The next version of variants&4-Player Chess can be tested at https://www.chess.com/variants-test/ Please help us test, report bugs, and give feedback.

Why are there no rounded corners here?😑

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Hi everyone, I've played a lot of horde chess games. Every game had the result that black won! The side can easily win by sacrifice rooks, bishops and knights so that the queen kill the back rank. Have you ever won by checkmate or got stalemate, as white?

Hey guys, I'm doing test games for my variant Ahab Chess, and since chess.com doesn't support it yet, I'm having to create workarounds by just PMing notation back and forth with people, and having physical boards set up on either end. I've come up with a few other ways of testing too, but they're all pretty crazy. I was wondering if there would be a way on the Variants server to have a standard chess board where all the normal rules apply (including castling), but neither player has a royal piece. The only way to win would be by capturing every piece, or by resignation. This would allow me to test my variant easily using the honor system (which I'm already using), and would make things a lot easier. I've tried to find a way to do this, but I couldn't see how. The closest thing I found was Giveaway chess, but that has compulsory capturing, which would not work for testing. Is this possible to do? If so, how? If not, then that's sad XD Thanks for your time!

traditional superior minor rook's invitation Western rooks invitation eastern the challenging ones are here rook's checkmate defense declined rook's checkmate accepted rook takeover: dark rook's takeover: light