New variant: Switchy Chess

Google doc of rules

Maybe each player gets a 3 move cooldown on using the same variant.

Add cooldown of 3 moves and also a 10 second or so chance to decide your variant. If this seems like a way to cheat for extra time do evaluate moves then it could change to be something like your time runs down at a slightly slower pace instead.

Fog of war is a good idea, but I think N-check is not due to situations that might involve perpetual check and is in general just too overpowered; especially if it is not reset every time it is switched to N-check.

What is the pac man rule?

It would be pretty hard to implement due to the fact that this introduces new rules and not just a new board and custom position

You couldn't play on a physical chess board because fog of war wouldn't work.

Why is crazyhouse completely omitted?

Ohh, thanks

I agree about Fatal Capture being better than Atomic for this variant

Also pac-man would never work because then both sides would be in check by the start of the game. Even if you stopped that the the queenside knight could warp and take the black queen off the bat.

I guess pac-man could work on the sides, but should be limited like a spell in spell chess.

because that skips your turn

What I mean is, if you have a rook on c5, you can make the rook travel around the c file and return back to c5

I don't mean the starting position, I meant from that turn.

Thanks : )

Pac-man could be restricted to only when all of the pieces(not pawns) have moved to minimize looping behind the defenses but it would still cause a lot of problems.

Also, if switching to a variant auto checks you, it should be allowed until it won't put you into check. If the game just started, then you swap to pac man, both of the kings are technically touching, so that won't be a possible variant swap.

Here is another example, if you capture with your king, and swap to fatal capture or atomic, your king will die, so that should be restricted.