New Piece Idea: Fisherman

The arrows represent how it moves. It cannot capture, though it has the ability to shift enemy pieces on the same file and rank one square towards the fisherman. If the piece moves on the square where the fisherman is after the ability, the piece is considered "taken". 

Example:

White has just moved the fisherman to e5. All the pieces surrounding the fisherman are now captured because of the fisherman's ability. Powerful!

In this position, if it was white to move, it would be a checkmate because the fisherman's ability causes the black king to get captured. If black just moved from h7 to h6, this would NOT be a checkmate because the ability only works AFTER the fisherman makes his move, so this would not be checkmate. Adding on to this, if white moves his king to f5, it still wouldn't be checkmate because the fisherman has to move for this ability to work.

I hope you like this piece, and give feedback please!

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Yes, this is a very creative piece. I especially like the idea that it moves enemy pieces (not yet captured, just drawing them in). Since it moves both as king and as knight, the best defense seems to stay away from the fisherman.

But due to its multi-capture ability, this is probably a very strong piece. It might even be too strong (to the point where it affects normal game dynamics). But not sure. Either way - I really like it!

A little too strong (imo) on an 8×8 or 8×10 board.

Nice!

So, in other words, the Fishman does have the ability to capture; simply not by traditionally landing on the occupied square of an enemy piece, as most other chessman do.

Very creative!

Bulldog pieces are awesome. I like this one, the Witch and the Time-Burglar. 

=)

This is just on far limb. It has nothing to do with the rules of the piece nor game play. Furthermore, it's not so much directed at OP as it's a topic for collaborative discussion.

In regards to Chess courtesy: Should one be allowed to move his or her opponent's piece when the Fisherman's involved? Or, should he or she instruct the opponent to move the opponent's pieces? Which would you think is ideal?

The reason I raise this as a discussion is, some folks would find it offensive when their opponents touch their pieces. I don't make it too big of a deal, but for (understandable) reasons, I've experienced some people who do. Some even get angry over it.

(I ran into a few incidents where I observed players get into verbal brawl over a (petty issue) of first taking enemy pieces off the board during capture, before moving an allied piece onto that captured square. One player would get offended because his piece was touched like that. It's because of these incidents that I learned to use my capturing pieces to physically pardoned the captured enemy piece aside, before placing my capturing piece on the square and then shifting my fingers to lift the enemy piece off the board.)

What do you guys think? If this were played OTB, would you get offended if your live in-person opponent moved your piece for you? Would you want your IP opponent to instruct you if your piece needs to be moved due to the Fisherman?

Hmm. Well, I guess I haven't considered Blitz. In such a speeds chess, I haven't come across a time when players got offended because his/her opponent lifted one of his/her pieces off before the opponent moved the capturing piece onto the captured square. I think it matters less, when you don't have time to think about moving. lol