Chess 360

OK, this is a new chess variant that (or at least I think) I invented. After each turn, the board turns 45 degrees clockwise. The peices then move in a rotated fashion. After the first rotation pawns move diagonal left, rooks move diagonally, and so on. Never played this before so may need tweaking.

This variant looks really strange and interesting. I have one question: How does the roatation affect knights?

A knight, when the board is diagonal, moves two squares diagonally in one direction, and one square diagonally in another.

Shall I give an example game?

and so on.

I played this for the first time today. It's all "WHERE DID THAT ROOK COME FROM???!!"

Also, this game has some great novelties; rooks can move diagonally, pawns can go backwards, bishops can go on either coloured square...

Cool! This is NUTS! Let's play!

1. g4

2. d6

2. Rf3! lol this is fun!

sorry, I meant d5, not d6. Don't use coordinates very much, so...

If that doesn't change anything Qd6.

3. Nc3 I am amazed at how fun this is! I'm giggling like a schoolgirl in a candy store! (not literally!)

Qh2

The only trouble with this sort of variant though, is you go back to normal chess and you think "wow. This is really boring."

now at 135 degrees.