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[New Variant] Colossal Chess
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Apr 30, 2021
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Wow!!!! If my eyesight was a bit better, this would be the perfect board game for me!!!!
m a s s i v e
wow
RIP MY EYES
Too Big
Way too BIG
Ерунда
XXXXXXXXL chess, lol. It's not really to play
Wow. I'm impressed. This is like the second variant you've invented in a month (for those who don't know this variant is 8PC). Have you made a club for this yet?
My guess: Empire
rune_raider wrote:
I think it could be a playable game IF you hover your cursor to make pawns and pieces move and it does it all in real time rather than turnbased
Real time/ synchroneous are ideas I have been exploreing and working with.
I don't imagine anyone could realistically play this unless they really wanted to.
For me this is more of a proof of concept.
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So far as I am aware Taikyoku shogi is the the largest chess variant known and built.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi
It'd 36x36 squares and developed in the 16th century. It's so old historians are not sure what all pieces do... :0
It looks beautiful though.
Perosnally I never felt that our current XXL model went far enough. 14x14 squares just sets my OCD off like crazy. To me, it should have been 16x16 squares and we should have got ourselves some massive army, not just two rows of pieces. But that's my opinion. I just want to play like its a full blown war lol.
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So yes, technically (depending who you ask), this might be the largest chess variant ever.
Funny thing is, with some other things I got in the works (board wise), this might be on the small end...
OH MY GOD
Imagine playing this on phone
LIVE
lol Bullet mode
10 years later:
Hey guys today we are going to play some 2048x2048 chess with 3d design on a cube...
Sorry if you think this is too easy,I am still learning how to play 6d chess with 4096x4096 chess on a circle... Should take about 1 day to learn
tacticspotter wrote:
10 years later:
Hey guys today we are going to play some 2048x2048 chess with 3d design on a cube...
Sorry if you think this is too easy,I am still learning how to play 6d chess with 4096x4096 chess on a circle... Should take about 1 day to learn
lol. I wish we could play the 3D chess from Star Trek though. That would be fun.
Chess Creator's Oath:
I promise, as a variant creator, to never patent a game of Chess.
My game is free. Chess is free. I rescind all rights of intellectual property.
I recognise no Chess authority. Chess belongs to all humanity.
Chess is for everyone. May it be, that Chess remains unfettered and free.
Colossal Chess
So my latest invention is built on a 64 x 64 board. It's a bit rediculous... If you can't see the image clearly, right click and open in a new tab.
In this variant I have used a lot of fairy pieces. I have been relatively conservative with rider pieces as this will become the de facto valuable pieces in this game with such a large board. There is 1 King and 1 Amazon on the board.
Within the Pawn "frontline" I have used 4 rows of pawns, 2 rows of berolina, 1 row of soldier and 1 row of stone general.
Rules
Pawn pieces can only move 1 square at a time, however, at the start of the game the players can agree to push all pawns within the "frontline" further up the board by an agreed amount (up to 8). After the pawn agreement phase play may begin starting with White.
Pieces move as they do with regular fairy piece movement. Pawns promote in the eighth "rank region" (57th rank), but only the sergeant may promote into an Amazon.
A King may castle with an "Elephant"(Rook-Knight) on the first rank provided that niether piece has moved, there are no pieces in between them and the King would not be in or passing through check in order to castle.
There is no 50 move non capture rule for draws (this game is rediculous).
Custom Settup
The above example is only a standard I'm defining. Custom settup is the heart of this variant.
You take all the pieces from above and you assign them in whatever format you want within the first 3 regions in your territory. Both you and your opponent plan your settups secretly then you bring your armies to the field in the format you gave chosen (no automate 1 at a time thing here, but you can play like that if you want to.... [I wouldn't]).
Mercenaries variation
In Mercenaries an agreed upon points scheme for all pieces is drawn up for all pieces and each player agrees upon being allocated a certain number of "points" in which to spend before the game begins.
A player must spend all his/her points before the game begins and can buy whatever piece they like according to the agreed price and place them whereever they want. Each player does this in secret first before bringing the armies to the table.
At a later date I may come up with a point system and suggested price values for players to start if they wish to play this variant but I got stuff to do now :v
Hope you like it :0