One special rule I read about for the ancient form of chess known as Tamerlane Chess, which predated modern standard International Chess by a few hundred years, was the ability of the King to switch places with a non royal piece while in check.
I think it could be interesting to have this as an option for a special rule in custom variants.
It would mean that in this position for instance, assuming white didn't play the switch previously, white would not be in checkmate as all of the non royal pieces would be on safe squares so white could play a move that results in a position like this
Thanks for pointing that out @ChessPawn921, I fixed it so that the piece swap would be the only way out of check, so that without the piece swap allowed it would indeed be checkmate.
One special rule I read about for the ancient form of chess known as Tamerlane Chess, which predated modern standard International Chess by a few hundred years, was the ability of the King to switch places with a non royal piece while in check.
I think it could be interesting to have this as an option for a special rule in custom variants.
It would mean that in this position for instance, assuming white didn't play the switch previously, white would not be in checkmate as all of the non royal pieces would be on safe squares so white could play a move that results in a position like this