(Original comment- 'OH FLIP ONE SEC')
Changelog:
Feb 17th
1.Made the rules less extensive
2.Changed the formatting to make it easier to read.
3.Added some important points based on recent questions posed to me.
Update: Changelog does not apply to the regular updates of new submissions
space the rules part properly
I like how 4pc color scheme is a rule
time to try this instead of miyachess
This challenge will likely go until cgas acknowledge this trend in a harmful way, forcing us to stop.
I doubt the CGAs will do that
Available concepts will eventually come to a limit, so...
I actually think there should be a 4P 6x6 WoF
This challenge will likely go until cgas acknowledge this trend in a harmful way, forcing us to stop.
Any trend involving WoFs is good unless it is Lobotomy because it means more fun for us during testing and not hours debating whether a feature is good or not lol
Oh yeah, 2, 3 and 4P are all allowed here, Bots are also free to use!
This challenge will likely go until cgas acknowledge this trend in a harmful way, forcing us to stop.
Any trend involving WoFs is good unless it is Lobotomy because it means more fun for us during testing and not hours debating whether a feature is good or not lol
ANY trends? Alphabets too?
Any trend involving WoFs is good unless it is Lobotomy because it means more fun for us during testing and not hours debating whether a feature is good or not lol
ANY trends? Alphabets too?
Sure, why not lol
Oh yeah, 2, 3 and 4P are all allowed here, Bots are also free to use!
That'd feel awfully cramped but anybody is welcome to prove me wrong lol
[Last updated- May 27th]
Before we start, just a shoutout to the CGAs for adding this to the directory!
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Just thought we'd have a moment of silence for all of those rip-off challenges (nah just kidding but there must be like 15 of those running around right now)
(March 31st update- There are actually 13 rip off challenges including this, wow)
Note added on June 2nd: We now have a seperate tournament category for Pocket Chess! Cool!
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So this is something that me and @imchesspro0930 have thought up of, which is...
*Pocket Chess Challenge*So basically it's just chess but it's in your pocket. The rules for joining this challenge are simple-
1. The board must be 6x6
2. It must use the 4pc color scheme
3. Should be a WoF
So Pocket chess challenge basically started from Beehive, a submission by @imchesspro0930. Since this got basically auto accepted (Opposite of auto declined) he thought it would be a cool idea to make Fatality (unfortunately declined) and Medusa's Pawns, which became number 2 and 3 as part of the pocket chess series.
So how do you join the series? Well all you have to do is make a variant following the above rules (Which are pretty easy to follow, honestly) and just mention on Variants.World that it's part of the series!
FAQs1.Yesterday i saw a random persons archive from three years ago and saw that they were playing a pre-merge 6x6 variant! Can I add this to pocket chess?
A: Submissions before Beehive will only be listed at express request of the creators, and even then, I may choose not to add it taking into consideration the integrity of the challenge.
Down here I'll be writing all of the submissions that are part of the series.
1. BEEHIVE-imchesspro0930 (The OG pocket chess)
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[Status- accepted]
2.Fatality-imchesspro0930 (Mini Military)
[Status- declined]
3.Medusa's pawns-imchesspro0930 (2pc petrified diminishing returns)
[Status- Declined]
4.Cataclysm-imchesspro0930 (Catastrophe 2pc)
[Status- Declined]
5.Hilly Jungle III-Chye3mc (Why self decline D: )
[Status-Declined]
6.The Cellar-VishTheFish771 (Attempt at new naming trend)
[Status-Declined D:]
7.Delicate Giant- Nyutixbrother (Crystal but it's Nyutix)
[Status-aaaCCCCCCCCEEEEEEPPPPTTTEEEDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!]
8.The Wazir Snake- Czarny (Now Czarny was the real 4th person to join the challenge, huh)
[Status-Declined ]
9.Vanished Mystery and Brokers- KingSacrificingGotta or KSG (Which one is it?)
[Status-Declined and Declined respictively]
10.Unequal-icp0930 (Mini Unfair- I mean Contrasting strats)
[Status-ACCEPTED WHAAAAT]
11.Solarion-icp0930 (Is it chilly in here, or is that just me?)
[Status-ACCEPTED!??!!]
12.Battle By The River- Chye's Brother (I like building lego technic as well!)
[Status-Declined]
13.FORASKEN CITY- THE GOD(2bhsnt) (This will go down as one of the greatest acceptions of all time
[Status- ACCEPTED!!!]
14.Zodiac-KingSackGotta (Debatable name, but why not, I suppose)
[Status-Declined]
15.Pillager's Chess-Chye3mc (I like the name!)
[Status-declined]
16.Doubles-Czarny (Not tennis, so why not badminton)
[Status-ACCEPTED!!!!]
17.Inferior Atomic-CooolChicken (Uh... I like atomic)
[Status-Declined)
18.Pointy Garden-Haloeyi (Uno Reverse Hilly Jungle)
[Status- Declined]
19.Inequity-asthebird (All the good variant creators have joined)
[Status-ACCEPTED?!?!!?!?!??!?!? (3rd Pocket chess acception!)]
20.Cramped Fight-Yu (Nevermind... *Just kidding
[Status-Declined]
21.Broker-KSG (Why just why)
[Status-ACCPTED!?!?!??!?!]
22.Florida Everglades-Chye3mc (Why not HJ V? But anyways...)
[Status-Declined]
23.Camel of The Hill-Chye3mc (Queen of The Hill but it's a camel)
[Status-Declined]
24.Idaho Potato-Chye3mc (I choose English)
[Status-declined]
25.Tiny Atomicci-Chye3mc (Sounds like a type of explosive pasta)
[Status-declined]
26.Milla's Chess-KSG (...)
[Status-Declined]
27.Ducking-Chye3mc (His legacy continues forevermore...)
[Status- Declined]
28.You Suck-Chye3mc (Why did he make this...)
[Status- Declined+warning (Basically muted)]
29.Uncitieans-yx-anyeye (It took me 6 tries to spell this right)
[Status- Declined]
30.Pawn Battle-Joowon (Dragon bishops aren't weak lol)
[Status-Declined]
31.[This is a square] -Cooolchicken (Nice to see you joining pocket chess!)
[Status-Declined]
32.Soggy Swamp- VishTheFish771 (I told you it would be mine!
[Status-DECLINED COME ON MAN]
33.Claustrophobe's Nightmare -CooolChicken (The Rise of The Chicken-Part 1)
[Status-UR]
34.King Sacrifice- CooolChicken (Hmmm, KSG?)
[Status-Declined]
35.Obsidian Pinnacle- VishTheFish771 (One of my latest (and greatest) creations!)
[Status-ACCEPTED AHHHH (it really was somehow good?)]
36.Pocket Golden Rain- Czarny (One of the first time BG used instead of RY in PC)
[Status-Declined…]
37.Shrine of Clavense- imchesspro0930 (Who on Earth is Clavense?)
[Status-Declined]
38.Sergeant Dodo- Wolyn (I like dodos)
[Status-UR] (This thing is taking up the entirety of TestLab schedule...)
39.The Camoflage- KSG (Nothing about this is hiding lol)
[Status-UR]
40.Qigrea Cnerity- yx-11ayneye (How do you pronounce Cnerity)
[Status-Declined]
41.Wildebeest Arena- CooolChicken (reminds me of Wolyns wildebeest thing...)
[Status-Declined+Cooolchicken has another FWFY]
42.Cramped Jungle-Joowon (Lol i named this)
[Status-Declined]
43.Phantom Jungle-CooolChicken (You've redeemed yourself)
[Status-ACCEPPPTTTEEEDDDDDDDD!??!?!?!]
44. Barren Warfield - @yx-111aynye [Status- ACCCEPPEPEPEPPEEETTTTTTTTTTTTT]
45. Quickstrike - @QtSeSc (Man i gave the name)[Declined]
46. Hilly Golden Rain - @CzarnyResorak567 (WILL THIS BE THE ONE?)[UR]
47. Wild - @CooolChicken (Cgas like it)[UR]
48. Switching Armies - @CzarnyResorak567 (Qtesc roasts everything)[ACCPTED!!!]
49. Riptide - @cooolchicken (Another name by me yay)[UR]
50. Mini raji - @yx-111aynye (aw man I helped to work on this)[Declined]
51. Xiangqi Paradise - @chessknightben ("UR only because the CGAs are asleep" ~Cooolchicken)[Declined]
52.Mini Chaturaji - @yx-111aynye as well as @vishthefish771 (co-op project yay)[UR]
53.Kâsita - KSG (I told you to call it choralmere...)[Declined]
54."Sacrifice us!"- KSG (Maybe if you asked nicely, the pieces will sack themselves... lol)[Declined]
55.Unintentionally - KSG (Serendipity is a synonym of Unintentionally (I think))[Declined]
56.Bare Lion - Wolyn (The name is interesting to say the least)[UR, and will probably be for a loooooooooooong time]
57.Makashi Chess - Omisgoat (Kakashi with a 'm')[omisgoat's first... ACCEPTION!?!?!?!?]
58.Tiny Torpedoes - CzarnyResorak (Call it Yellow Submarine instead)[Declined]
59. The Immortal Knight -CooolChicken (This knight has reached... godhood)[UR]
60. The Wazir Snake- CzarnyResorak (Nice to see the 5th ever PC back in action!)[UR]
61. Vanished Mystery- KSG (Sounds like a robbery...)[UR]
62. New Orleans- KSG (This name is about as Chye as names go lol)[UR]
63. Full Control- Czarny (vroom vroom 4x4)[Declined]
64. Zodiac- KSG (Oh no another KSG revision... jk)[UR]
65. Equilibrium- yx-111aynye (Yay a VishTheFish name)[UR]
66. Clothing- CzarnyResorak (English or sp- I mean shirts or pants?)[UR]
67. Panda Plateau- KSG (Congrats on the first decent 6x6 3pc!)[UR]
68. Cursed Sculptures- CzarnyResorak (Like medusa's pawns but more cursed)[UR]
69. Fiery Forge- yx-111aynye (69th Pocket Chess be like: )[UR]
70. Final Bastion- yx-111aynye (ACCEPTED BEFORE I EVEN ADDED IT HERE!?!?!?)[UR]
71. Battle of Directions- areyouchesse (Not bad for a first, ig)[UR]
72. Ace of Zealots- KSG & yx (s-d... sigh)[declined]
73. Frosted Fjord- yx-111aynye (Wow the MCD names are stacking up!)[UR]
Over here, I'll be putting submissions that could probably qualify as Pocket Chess submissions, but don't because they are not 6x6:
1. Unmirroring- yx-111aynye
2. Tian Shian Blue- yx-111aynye
Congrats to everyone on reaching a grand total of 58 pocket chess submissions!!! Who would have thought we'll reach this far? Big thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge!
(Random update on 28/4/2025)
Thought I'd list down everyone who's participated so far:
@imchesspro0930
@Nyutixbrother
@VishTheFish771
@Cooolchicken
@yx-111aynye
@chessknightben
@Qtsesc
@Joowon2015 or @Buzzyguy (idk all his new alts lol)
@Chye3mc
@2bhnst
@KingsSacrificingGotta
@JustCalmDownImHaloeyi
@Wolyn
@asthebird
@Czarnyresorak567
@Omisgoat
Also technically Chye's brother participated in this but idk his username or anything, so here you go:
@ChyesBrother771 (Because who wouldn't put 771 at the end of their username!)
You guys can use this forum to ask questions about the series and discuss ideas for possible new variants.