This club isn't for site related feature suggestions, only about the Public API
You should post in the official Variants club instead.
https://www.chess.com/club/variants
A New Chess Variation Idea
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Sound like a really cool idea though!
My friends and I have been playing chess for a while. We usually play games over the board, and we like to get creative and add our own things to it.
The other day, we came up with an idea we thought was pretty interesting, but difficult to execute in real life: a Capture the Flag version of chess.
I coded a prototype version in Python, and it was actually quite enjoyable, so we thought we should maybe suggest it to the chess.com devs.
We emailed the support team, and they suggested we post it up here.
Here's the idea:
At the beginning of a CTF Chess game, a flag icon spawns randomly somewhere between the 3rd and 6th ranks.
If a piece/pawn moves to the square the flag is on, the flag is 'captured', and moves along with the capturing piece from then on.
If another piece takes a piece which currently has the flag, the flag becomes captured by the taking piece.
The goal is to finish the game with the flag in your possession.
It might seem pretty straight forward, but it's surprisingly difficult to keep a piece possessing the flag safe, as it puts a "bounty" on it, changing the entire rhythm of the game (because the target of each player keeps shifting, instead of being constant - the king).
It doesn't matter whether black wins, white wins or it's a draw, as long as one player possesses the flag.
If the king captures the flag, it's an automatic win for the player, but putting your own king in check is still illegal.
If the game is completed without anyone capturing the flag (though it's not likely), the game is declared a draw.
If you find the idea interesting, please consider adding it to the chess Variations, or contacting us under this post/through this email address: tomersewell@gmail.com (we could send over the prototype code).
Thanks so much!