New Position Workshop / Testing Thread
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Rafael0310
Apr 12, 2023
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#581
Rafael0310 wrote:
rules:12 checks and 40 points for check mate
it is an interesting board layout, but suffers from lack of pieces. essentially the game comes down to luck on which piece you are given, not always are the pieces equal in value even if you think they may be or otherwise considered to be. For example, my opinion is the rook/bishop knights are equal in most positions, however due to wall layouts I can assume the bishop is often better here. Camel knight is generally better but maybe not against similar value pieces as here. Overall the position needs more play for each side, a few minor pieces to help the attack potential of the royals, pawns are probably not necessary but would allow for a pressure mechanism between players requiring attacks before promotions become available.
upon testing the position I believe yellow should start opposite of blue, not near. my assumption is yellow loses here without just avoiding entirely
R-0,1,0,1-1,1,1,1-1,1,1,1-0,0,0,0-0-{'pawnBaseRank':5,'wb':true,'dim':'4x8'}-
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,yB,yN,yK,yR,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,yP,yP,yP,yP,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,4,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,4,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,4,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,4,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,rP,rP,rP,rP,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,rB,rN,rK,rR,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x
Somebody has to have done this before...
Why not, @cheese? I played it and it wasn't bad.
lukegk wrote:
Why not, @cheese? I played it and it wasn't bad.
talking about mine, with the 4x8 board
Fair, how could you fix that?
Apr 13, 2023
0
#593
TheCheeseDuck wrote:
i'm saying this from an admin's perspective... i think the board is too open and there's way too many majors pieces so it just becomes a trade fest at the end of the day
Not to mention, the general and wildebeest sides are much weaker
Hi all. This is my first try to make a custom variant. Screenshot and PGN will follow. The idea is for a 4 players game in Team format. One team is Red and Green and second Blue and Yellow. Red start the game and game proceed clockwise. So one team has the advantage to begin the game but other will have first concurrently two moves, one of each partner. Each partner will have different army to play. Red and Yellow will have the standard chess army when Blue and Green will have an army of 15 fairy pieces without King. Also Green and Blue will have 3 pieces to use in Seirawan style. In order to win you need to checkmate the opponent King and stalemate is draw. Finally promotion for every type of pawn is on 8th rank and it is always an Amazon (Moves like Queen and Knight). Opinions please 
PGN:
R-0,0,0,0-1,0,1,0-1,0,1,0-0,0,0,0-0-{'seirawanDrops'
'd1','e1','f1','g1','h1','i1','j1','k1'),('a10','a9','a8','a7','a6','a5'),('d14','e14','f14','g14','h14','i14','j14','k14'),('n10','n9','n8','n7','n6','n5'),()),'bank'
'','bC,bV,bG','','gC,gV,gG')}-
x,x,x,yR,yN,yB,yQ,yK,yB,yN,yR,x,x,x/
x,x,x,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,yP,x,x,x/
x,x,x,8,x,x,x/
x,x,x,8,x,x,x/
bE,bγ,10,gγ,gE/
bH,bα,10,gα,gH/
bA,bδ,10,gδ,gA/
bY,bδ,10,gδ,gY/
bH,bα,10,gα,gH/
bE,bγ,10,gγ,gE/
x,x,x,8,x,x,x/
x,x,x,8,x,x,x/
x,x,x,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,x,x,x/
x,x,x,rR,rN,rB,rQ,rK,rB,rN,rR,x,x,x
