New Position Workshop / Testing Thread

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Yep, Fog of War seems to be the fix to the lack of a strategic difference. About 7 people played this variant in a small timespan today! I'll most probably release this NCV into variants.world tommorow.

“Out of the cave” my custom variant

After a NoWellOkay encounter, here is the new FEN4 of ✧𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓮𝓭✧:

[StartFen4 "R-0,0,0,0-1,1,1,1-1,1,1,1-0,0,0,0-0-{'pawnBaseRank':3,'spells': ('jump_8x2,freeze_8x3','jump_8x2,freeze_8x3','jump_7x2,freeze_7x3','jump_7x2,freeze_7x3'),'spellFields': ()}-x,x,x,X,X,X,yN,yN,X,X,X,x,x,x/x,x,x,X,yR,yΔ,yK,yM,yΔ,yR,X,x,x,x/x,x,x,X,yP,yP,yU,yU,yP,yP,X,x,x,x/X,X,X,X,2,yP,yP,2,X,X,X,X/X,bR,bP,8,gP,gR,X/X,bΔ,bP,8,gP,gΔ,X/bN,bM,bU,bP,6,gP,gU,gK,gN/bN,bK,bU,bP,6,gP,gU,gM,gN/X,bΔ,bP,8,gP,gΔ,X/X,bR,bP,8,gP,gR,X/X,X,X,X,2,rP,rP,2,X,X,X,X/x,x,x,X,rP,rP,rU,rU,rP,rP,X,x,x,x/x,x,x,X,rR,rΔ,rM,rK,rΔ,rR,X,x,x,x/x,x,x,X,X,X,rN,rN,X,X,X,x,x,x"]
[Variant "FFA"]
[RuleVariants "DeadKingWalking EnPassant KotH PointsForMate=40 PromoteTo=MRΔ Prom=9 SpectatorChat Spell"]

That's technically a PGN4 but I don't think anyone cares.

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Who is NoWellOkay?

@NoWellOkay

Please try my new custom variant, "The Chaotic Chess"

When the fog is removed it looks like...

Rules:-Fog of war(optional)

King of the hill

Sewerian setup

Atomic(optional)

Torpado, sideway pawns(optional)

player loses after 8 checks or king get captured

He did it. He placed down every piece on a board.

It’s so cool but why are all the pieces dead

thats what makes it chaotic....

theyre white pieces

Yep it makes sense

@Pradipta okay

stick chess...

https://variants.world/posts/155

I mean the similarity

I also came up with this position. It would have a bare king rule so that it would be possible to win even with it being impossible to check the royal kings or effect their movement. It also has passing allowed so that capturing the last non royal piece doesn’t result in stalemate. It’s also teams, with red and yellow vs blue and green being the teams. Also pawns promote on the default rank to Queens, Rooks, Bishops, Knights, or Kings. The idea is that this way even though there are kings, and therefor royal pieces its equivalent to a variant without royal pieces as the royals can’t move or be placed in check so that the goal is basically to capture everything that can be captured.

Example Game:

https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/69462129/0/2

I'm assuming that by "bare king" you mean the "bare piece rule."

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I haven't looked into this yet, but this seems drawish, especially when queens, rooks, and bishops are hard to trap on a 14x14. Allow Passing only makes it more drawish.

I would say add Giveaway and take out Teams for a 4-player Elimination Chess variant.