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New things for variants
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I think this is a good suggestion as the 4 player chess will have more features to play and players will no get bored easily due to the more ways to play chess variant.
they should also add Chess-80 by Hans Födisch as a variant
TripodGamer wrote:
they should also add Chess-80 by Hans Födisch as a variant
Thats a good idea, but they only will add new pieces if its for a popular or historical variant
Hallo everyone,
I have recently posted an idea, actually quite simple, natural one, to chess.com's bugs report center, and I share it here.
Is there any way to create a "variant" which is actually "real" tournament chess. According to it,
- illegal moves are possible
- regarding side is punished with some penalties.
That's all! This need not be a variant, it would be put just as a preference like rated/unrated, rating ranges, color, etc.
I wonder your ideas. Thanks in advance!
New pieces: I think these 4 pieces should be added:
Modern Elephant (Ferz + Alfil)
Xiangqi Cannon (a Rook that must jump over a piece to capture)
Champion (Wazir + Alibaba)
Wizard (Ferz + Camel)
I think the Modern Elephant and the Xiangqi Cannon should be added because then Shako (https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/Shako) would be possible on chess.com
I think the Wizard and the Champion should be added because then Omega Chess (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Chess) would be possible on chess.com
Colored KOTH squares:
basically KOTH squares can have colors:
no color: if a king/royal piece of any color move to a colorless KOTH square then the owner of that piece wins the game
white: if the white king/royal piece moves to a white KOTH square then white wins the game
black: if the black king/royal piece moves to a black KOTH square then black wins the game
4pc colors:
red: if the red king/royal piece moves to a red KOTH square then red wins the game
blue: if the blue king/royal piece moves to a blue KOTH square then blue wins the game
green: if the green king/royal piece moves to a green KOTH square then green wins the game
yellow: if the yellow king/royal piece moves to a yellow KOTH square then yellow wins the game
Pieces mobility zone: this allows you to restrict a piece movement to a certain zone, theres would be a blank text box on “edit rules” that allows you do that, theres how it works: [a lower case letter (abbreviation of the color of the piece)]:[a Uppercase letter (notation of the piece)] = [squares or ranks or files], theres a better example:
wB = 1 2 3 4
bB = 5 6 7 8
wK = e1 e2 d1 d2
bK = d7 e7 d8 e8
wR = A H
bR A H
the text above basically means that:
the White and Black Rooks are restricted to the A and H files, the White Bishops are restricted to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Rank, the black bishops are restricted to the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Ranks, the white king is restricted to the d1, e1, d2 and e2 squares and the black king is restricted to the d8, e8, d7 and e7 squares
custom promotion: this allows custom promotions for non-pawn variant and promotions only on certain ranks/squares/files
theres a example how this would work:
N(*) = ON
R(a* h*) = E
Q(e1) = A
the Text above basically means:
* means last Rank
Knights promote to Knight or Knight-Rider on the last rank
Rooks promote to Chancellor on the Last Rank (only on the A or H file)
Queens promote to Amazon on the d1 square
backwards: this option appear as button on “edit rules”, if enabled all pawns and pawn variants can move 1 square straight backwards (move only)
Moves per turn: appears on the position editor, allows you to set how much times a player has to make a move in a turn, you also can set different amounts of moves per turn for the players: example:
White: 2 moves per turn
Black: 1 move per turn
this allows Monster Chess (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_chess) and Marseillaise Chess (https://www.chessvariants.com/multimove.dir/marseill.html) to possible on chess.com