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Camel Forest II
The pieces are represented in the picture above using their symbols on this site as I couldn't find a board editor for this. The pawns home rank is 5 and the pawns promote on the 14th rank. The options for pawn promotion would be any of the pieces shown in the starting position for the variant with the exception of the king, or a Ferz. Other than the starting position shown above, and the rules described above the rules would be the same as regular chess.
Playing Trice's Chess here would be wonderful.
Is pre-chess or placement chess doable within the existing coding?
I sometimes wonder how 960, that forces to accept some random position, can be so popular, and pre-chess where you can set your own position be so impopular, or so coldly received.
Komstratyx-Spiele wrote:
Playing Trice's Chess here would be wonderful.
I'm a fan of Trice's Chess too. A lot of thought went into it. Chess variant author Rick Knowlton interviewed the inventor of the game and has several interesting video discussions with him and great annotated games
And here is one talking about how it all started
No other variant has attracted so much attention.
rakso98 wrote:
Variant idea: Automate chess piece placement rules, but where you play the position yourself, instead of the computer playing it for you. Would be even more fun if you could add fairy pieces, each for some price just like normal pieces (and maybe a limited amount of walls). So players could place their own army and then play with that. Also a four player version of "play-it-yourself-automate-chess-with-fairy-pieces" could be cool.
YES!!! Amazing idea!
Feb 5, 2021
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What type of coding is needed? I would love to try my hand at that if I'm able.
Feb 6, 2021
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It's all javascript and css (vue, node). If you'd like to volunteer, send me a PM, otherwise, write to @erik.
I'm looking forward to playing. And I'd love to see the code for how to do a forum section for a website.
Have you seen the Stargate game I just played on here?
can we play it in chess.com beta?
Great to see these variants coming onto Chess.com!
I just discovered Gothic chess (aka Trice's chess) is here -- fantastic!
To get the story of Trice's Chess (it's quite a story!), check these videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2LMZlpvzk4JDD-kwxrq4vdmGpYuA9y2f
-- Rick (coauthor of A World of Chess: Its development and variations through centuries and civilization -- http://AWorldofChess.com)
When do we get to play Janggi (Korean chess)?
Can we play xxl chess yet?
Racing Kings
Race your King to the eighth rank to win.
Rules
In this game, checks are entirely forbidden: not only is it forbidden to move one's king into check, but it is also forbidden to check the opponent's king.
The purpose of the game is to be the first player to move their king to the eighth row. When White moves their king to the eighth row, and Black, immediately on the next move, moves their king to the eighth rank, the game is declared a draw (this rule is to compensate for White's first-move advantage).
Apart from the above, pieces move and capture exactly as in normal chess.