New Position Workshop / Testing Thread

I have three interesting concepts to share:

1. Choosing what your royal piece is (by way of pawn promotion) where you promote a royal pawn.
2. Having a powerful royal piece (like a knight rider, a camel rider or even a queen!) to checkmate solely from a really strong army (it kind of links with #1 where I plan to make it so that pawns can be promoted to rooks, bishops, wildebeests and/or generals).
3. Having an army of really strong pieces trapped in the corner by your own pawns (and lots of walls) which is then your job to unleash. It links with #2 because a really strong army is necessary to checkmate a really strong royal piece.

Unfortunately, I doubt the feasibility of #3 because a really strong army can just be traded off or taken advantage of through teaming / ganging up. A powerful royal piece is also really difficult to checkmate and although I intend this to be an interesting challenge, there is a risk of this checkmate becoming too boring. However, I think #1 will certainly be fun and I have already begun implementation of this concept.

this is still active what

R-0,1,0,1-1,1,1,1-1,1,1,1-0,0,0,0-0-{'pawnBaseRank':5,'wb':true,'dim':'14x10','noCorners':true}-
x,x,10,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,4,x,x/
4,yR,yB,yQ,yK,yB,yR,4/
3,X,yδ,yδ,yδ,yδ,yδ,yδ,X,3/
1,X,X,X,6,X,X,X,1/
1,X,yN,8,yN,X,1/
1,X,X,X,6,X,X,X,1/
14/
1,X,X,X,6,X,X,X,1/
1,X,rN,8,rN,X,1/
1,X,X,X,rδ,rδ,rδ,rδ,rδ,rδ,X,X,X,1/
4,rR,rB,rQ,rK,rB,rR,4/
x,x,4,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,10,x,x

A lot of people has quit while playing this and when wrote that it was boring what do you think. If no one like it I am not going to keep play testing it.

R-0,1,0,1-1,1,1,1-1,1,1,1-0,0,0,0-0-{'pawnBaseRank':5,'wb':true,'dim':'8x12'}-
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x/
x,x,x,yδ,yB,yC,yK,yA,yB,yδ,yW,x,x,x/
x,x,x,1,yδ,yΔ,yR,yΔ,yδ,yW,yW,x,x,x/
x,x,x,2,yδ,yI,yδ,3,x,x,x/
x,x,x,3,yδ,4,x,x,x/
x,x,x,8,x,x,x/
x,x,x,8,x,x,x/
x,x,x,8,x,x,x/
x,x,x,8,x,x,x/
x,x,x,3,rδ,4,x,x,x/
x,x,x,2,rδ,rI,rδ,3,x,x,x/
x,x,x,1,rδ,rΔ,rR,rΔ,rδ,rW,rW,x,x,x/
x,x,x,rδ,rB,rC,rK,rA,rB,rδ,rW,x,x,x/
x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x

Is my new position too similar to Arena of Legends?

4th=R, Ox2, +20

It's a potential decline for being too similar whilst not having a better implementation of the labyrinth concept, but I'd still go ahead and play it to see if it's fun (especially at faster time controls)

A possible idea based on the fact that kings cannot be captured if they are adjacent in atomic.

Some sample games:
https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/67576720

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/67576438/

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/67576374/

White can attack Black on move 1, so you might want to fix that.

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/67644552

any problems before submission?

Game would likely end in a draw if everything is traded. Maybe add a hill?

ok, but how will I deal with people going for the hill early?

I would recommend that you read the variant testing tips that I added at the end of my Autodecline guide. Experimenting with changes is good, not everything has to be rushed so that you can release a variant really quickly.

ok

Smart people could bring a bunch of pieces to defend the hill.

Any advice on this variant or should I submit it once I get enough testing games?

I tried doing this before (https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/63878975/22/1), but I think that's fine. One thing I would change is make it so pawns promote to royal king, but that's just a 2bHNST style thing.

There's already a royal king on the board