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Wall Chess: Chess with a wall down the middle that peices cannot go through and has an opening between the center 4 squares
A few more possible variants
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Dec 28, 2009
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for wall chess we might use barolina pawns for the outside files
Dec 28, 2009
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I would like to see circular chess and infinite chess, I do not know if the boards will be possible
In your "Newton Ball" chess, would the following be legal?:
Jungle and super chess seem way to complicated. I could try to make a game for them though if you'd like, but I think that even with super-powered pieces, it will be impossible to mate a king that moves like a queen. Same with jungle chess, the king seems just to hard to mate. On an open board, you would need four minors (I'm counting the rook as a minor; without the king's help) to deliver mate to a king already on the edge of the board. Also, the rook is pretty much useless because it the center of the board it only controls four squares.
Wall chess looks interesting, but it would make the game far less tactical because there could be no kingside or queenside attacks.
@preachingforjesus: please tell me about those variants.
I think mating a knight-king would not be that hard. It can be done with only one peice after all. You're right about the superchess though... maybe regular king for that...
And your examply of Newton ball chess is wrong. The queen, is it moved like that, would not take the pawn but stay still and the pawn would take the king. G6 would therefore be illegal.
Another thing I have remembered is Checkerchess: Either both or one side has 8 checkers instead of pawns (arranged in the zig-zag way checkers are usually arranged.)
I had thought of infinate chess recently also. Was your idea that you have the usual setup of peices in the center of an infinately large board? Another thing I have just thought of is chess with infinate dimensions.
I don't get it. Can you give a few examples of the Newton Ball chess?
Is this what should have happened in that game:?
Hmm.... but then, for my above example of mating in jungle chess to be valid, it would need a regular queen. So that is what it shall have.
Or symmetrical chess: whenever you move or take with something the same movement aplies to the peice on the other side of the board. You'd need a 9 x 9 board with 2 queens. An example: a3 & i3, b4 & h4, (capturing) b4 & h4...
and when the king moves...?
when the king moves, only the king moves.
and when a piece moves onto the center file?
ah.
perhaps 2 kings?
then it's the same as cutting off the f,g and h files and putting in some funky rules. 1. e4 e5 2. Qe3
yeah.... bad idea.
Dec 28, 2009
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actually infinite chess that I had in mind is played on a board shaped like a lemniscate.
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/circularchess.htm
http://www.gravikord.com/chess.html
http://www.colebank.com/ichess/setup.htm
Oh yeah, I''ve seen that before. Looks quite interesting.
Looks interesting. In the third one with the infinity symbol shape, how does a bishop move in the central grid?
Jungle chess: You king moves like a knight, instead of bishops you have zebra's (jump 2,3), instead of rooks you have giraffes (jump 1,4), instead of knights you have camels (jump 1,3). instead of pawns you have checkers and the queen (or possibly tarzan?) can move like any of the above.
Newton Ball Chess: So, it basicly goes like this:
White rook moves along it's rank and stops next to black's rook and blacks pawn comes out the end moving like rook and takes the queen.
The rule being that if there are 2 or more peices next to each other and a peice tries to take one at the end, the peice at the other end beaks off moving like the attacker and if there it encounters a peice it takes it, else it hits the end of the board bounces off and returns to the original spot and the attacker is then pushed back to it's original spot. If there are no lines of peices the normal rules aply (I'm sorry if this was badly explained but it's fairly complicated.)
Super chess: Knights are nightriders, pawns are superpawns (move forward like rook and take like bishop), queens are amazons riders (queen+nightrider), the king can move as a queen, bishops can jump to any square the same colour as the one it's currently on that is unoccupied as well as the usual moves, and rooks can attack down entire rows (but not ranks) and take all of the peices in them in one turn.