New Position Workshop / Testing Thread

Add a bishop and remove a knight and replace it with a wildebeast

Where would i add the bishop.

Replace the dark squared alibabas and put the bishop there.

Ok thank you.

Rules: Fog of War, Stalemate Loss and No Promotion, 15s|1 timer.

For those who don't understand, if both players start with the same direction (forward or diagonal), white wins. If players go in different directions, black wins.

Could it be a good WoF? I'm pretty sure it's 50/50, but idk.

this is not a chess variant I think

Try to make it three-way like rock paper scissors

maybe not a good WoF,but a good friendship tester lol

All the times II,added bare piece,lets the main tactic become attack instead of shuffle cuz 1 piece claim loss.

setup:1 rook on the 2nd rank

rules:fog of war,giveaway,bare piece,atomic,crazyhouse,setup 5,fatal capture.

but you can leave 2 pieces left and explode them together, that still counts a win for you

If I were you, I would make the setup piece the royal for intreseting strategies. Also as mentioned before on Variants.world, this gamerule combo is not good unless the pieces are extremely weak, in which case it becomes a shufflefest. You see that this is basically a paradox cycle. If you still don't want to abandon this, I recommend shrinking the board (shoutout to icp) and replacing the rooks and bishops with dabbaba riders and alfil riders (Or something like that)

ok ill try (although 7×7 is weird and 6×6 is pocket chess,absolutely)

I am working on a Xiangqi-looking custom position:

The rules are: KoTH, Stalemate loss, Bare piece, =W.

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/77134146/52/1

Is there any problem in this custom position?

here is a version of bff that I tried to make

self-partner, 4th = FWG, 3-check

my 2 questions are: is this cramped?

should i add checks?

not 4th, but 2 moves of the top pawn layer

Both of the dabbaba-riders of one colour cover the same set of squares. This means I can use one of them as cannon fodder and be at limited disadvantage.

(Unfortunately, if symmetry is to be maintained, there is nothing that can be done about it.)

How

Currently, the alfils are way too useless in my opinion and do not affect gameplay that much(a problem) and is a little similar to warui-shogi by you(but not a big problem), but other than that this is quite good!

interesting concept

A slight "fix" - move the right-side Dabbaba-riders 1 square diagonally left-backward.

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/77182597/54/3

After changing this, I have seen some easy-to-see affects:

• The Cannon fodder problem have (maybe) been solved.
• The Dabbaba-riders are still colour-bounded.
• Developing Rooks are easier.
• (Elephants are still useless.)

I don't know whether this custom position is better than the previous one.