Variant Suggestion: Slippery Slope

Another idea would be to have the pieces in the normal setup but move one square away if they aren't in the centre. For example in this position here:

the knight would slip 1 square right but not 1 square down because the pawn is blocking it.

The pawns wouldn't slip because they are "safe" in the middle.

If the king would slip into check it doesn't slip as there is that invisible "barrier" there.

The squares where the pieces won't slip are the ones with kings on them

The pieces will slip on any other square.

Very confusing

confusing. Can you explain more?

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good, but confusing

its confusing

hmmmm. but how do you figure out which way to slip?  is it random?

What do you mean by slip?  (mouseslips I have plenty. )

I guess it slips back and if it can´t slip back it slips to the left on left side of chessboard and to the right on the right side. Another question is if it won´t slip if both directions (back and left) are blockaded. Yeah I find it also difficult

Here is the slipping direction:In the red squares, the pieces don't slip. Think of it as a plateau/hill (like KOTH), where the centre 4 squares are the top of the hill and the edges are the bottom. Basically, at the end of every turn, the pieces will slip one square away from the centre which is the "top" of the hill.

hope that clears things up a bit

it definitely clears things up a bit, but what if (hypothetically) there was a piece on f3, and g2 was blocked but neither f2 or g3 was blocked? which one would it slide to? (I think it should slide, it shouldnt just stay, because that would get way too complicated.)

I think up/down should be the convention.

I am sold.  Slippery slope ftw - let's go. +1

yeah i like it. +1