I have an idea for a new variant. It's called "Jester's Chess". It adds a new piece, the Jester...
lol i'm starting to recognize a pattern with your ideas
i find them interesting but they're very far from feasible with regards to implementation in the server
Not to worry. My (hopefully) upcoming variant would be completely confined to all of the server's limitations, but by still being fun.
Doesn't look like a river.
im going to install fairy stockfish when i get a chance and check some of these positions with an engine just in case one side has a great advantage
I changed my position to have actual walls as opposed to piece walls.
Dragon bishops become regular bishops.
Another position I came up with is this. In this position a camel has twice the range as a knight as is island bound while the camels are only color bound and there are twice as many islands as there are colors, and so I suspect the camels might be more valuable than the knights. The rooks are also island bound, which probably impacts their value. A wilder beast has a total range that includes every square that isn’t covered by a wall, and so the wilder beasts probably have a bit more synergy than usual. The royal pieces are also wilder beasts. Here’s an example game.
https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/69302761/0/1
Crazyhouse could fix that.
This might work better as a 4pc.
Not necessarily. It depends on how the concept is executed, but having isolated armies with 4P is almost never a great idea and the NCV variants that had this were pretty much all removed in 2022 upon re-evaluation before the merge. If you recall, we also recently declined a 2P variant using a similar concept.
What about Collateral Worlds?
It has just 2 split armies very closely linked together, with viable methods of opposite cooperation and independent play. So there’s been a lot more pros than cons through the many years it’s been on the 4PC server and consequently the Variants server.
Doesn't look like a river.
Well it kinda does, the 4th and 5th rows look like the river, and the pawns look like the riverbank.
Doesn't look like a river.
Well it kinda does, the 4th and 5th rows look like the river, and the pawns look like the riverbank.
Ok, fair.
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Because I don't want to make 2 separate posts, I'm also gonna dump the rest of the stuff I'm gonna say here.
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New position for ✧𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓮𝓭✧, even though I haven't even tested it yet:
Play4Mate, Stalemate Win, =NRΔ
I have an idea to modernize Courier Chess. This is a rough approximation of what it would look like.
Pawns and Queens move like modern chess, castling is allowed. Pawns promote to any type of piece in the board.
The b2, k2 and b7, k7 pawns are undefended. They wouldn't be a big problem imo (You can develop the Knights there, or just block it with a pawn.
Q and A
1. Why a general?
There are 3 rooks (including queen), 3 couriers (once again including the queen.) Why not include a 3rd Knight + King to make up for the poor Schleich / Jester? And the Jester is a sergeant now. Pretty cool huh?
Guys after I've created my variant I have no iea what to do with it. Do I just wait until a CGA looks at it?
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The River: The Release
This is a Shogi-like variant, except that pawns are now normal, No drop rule, and that there are two unorthodox pieces (Chancellor and Archbishop). 8x8 board, Black moves first.
From the last setup, the board has been reverted to 8x8 (It was 10x10 before) and the Alibaba has been removed and replaced with faster, more powerful pieces. Castling is allowed with the single rook (king moves two spaces and the rook follows).
Checkmate the royal king to win. (Kingside)
Rules: Bare piece rule
The stalemated player loses
Pawns promote to Kings
I wonder if this is good enough to be accepted, any suggestions are welcome.
That's very interesting. I'd be game for playing it.
Thanks. It's much more improved now and It'll most likely be one of the final revisions of the variant.
Piece position for everyone who likes to try it out:
R-0,1,0,1-1,1,1,1-1,1,1,1-0,0,0,0-0-{'royal'
'g4','','g11',''),'pawnBaseRank':4,'wb':true,'dim':'8x8'}-
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,yH,yN,1,yK,yK,1,yB,yR,x,x,x/
x,x,x,1,yE,4,yQ,1,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/
x,x,x,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,rP,x,x,x/
x,x,x,1,rE,4,rQ,1,x,x,x/
x,x,x,rH,rN,1,rK,rK,1,rB,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