Suggestion: Dynamic points

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BabYagun

(Inspired by our discussion in https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/suggestion-capturing-dead-grey-pieces-earns-0-5-points )

 

This may be a good idea to change the value of pieces this way: If some piece (or pawn) captures another piece (or pawn) its value increases by +1.

 

Real world analogy: Your soldier becomes more experienced, skilled, a veteran.

 

Example: You have a bishop (5 points). You take a pawn with this bishop, the bishop's "price" becomes 6.

 

This way we can force people to think a little more before they do some unneeded piece exchange. And this adds some additional layer to this game (see Example 3) below).

 

Some more examples:

 

1) You take an enemy's pawn with your pawn, you get 1 point and your pawn is now worth 2 points. Your enemy takes your pawn and earns 2 points.

 

2) You take an enemy's bishop with your knight, you get 5 points and your knight is now worth 4 points. Your enemy takes your knight and earns 4 points.

 

3) You take 3 enemy's pawns with your pawn, and your pawn is now worth 4 points. Your enemies stop chasing your knight and instead start fighting one another (and each other) to capture your super pawn.

 

P.P.S.

I remember there was an idea to increase the value of promoted queens from 1 to 9 (every move with +1 increment). These 2 ideas do not contradict.

Skeftomilos

So a queen after going on a killing spree may finally worth more than the king. Feminists will like this! happy.png

Seems like an interesting variant, to spice things up. It's a YES from me. happy.png

MGleason

Interesting idea.  A bloodthirsty rook could be worth a queen.

GSSD

Good idea. 

CandidateMcMaster

An interesting idea but I think it overcomplicates an already complicated game.

dashaflash1

We'd have to see how it would affect the balance of the game, because I think people would simply go haywire with their queen.

BabYagun

Of course we should have some playground to test new rules. I believe we will have one.

3dme

Great Idea!

tmikolajczak

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