A chess variant unlike the rest. One that needs great planning to win.

Rules

Promotion works like normal chess. With Pawn or slave.

Both the Queen and all Kings can castle. They move one extra space farther. Than they do in normal chess. To make up, for the board being wider. Castling with the Queen is called guarding. (You will see a cyan circle for the Queen. If she can still castle Click to indicate you want to castle)

Pawns, Jacks, Slaves, & Gambits all have a step forward on their first move.(like how pawns get a 2 step in normal chess. Refer the the move list.

The Lion was added for Chu Shogi (and its stripped-down derivative Mighty Lion Chess), which has the special rule that a Lion cannot capture a protected Lion from a distance, and that you cannot capture a Lion in the turn following one where a Lion was captured by another piece. (Basically forbidding Lion-for-Lion trades.)

En passant works like normal chess. With pawns.

I have this all set to run on Winboard.

Royals are a combination of the regular sliders and jumpers

Above just shows how the royals are all combinations of the normal pieces

Below are the move list in a few different views

View A)

View B)

View C) A more detailed showing. Most the pieces are slight variants of a normal pieces and the combined royal. With the exception of the camel/zebra moving ones. I find it easy to learn, but that is me. Below is the best list to learn from. Then use the ones above for reference. They print out well.

Here are the 3-D models I designed for them.

This pic with them set up is using models before I finished them. So some my differ from above

I hope some of you like this. I again have this all programed to run on win board. Thanks to the help of HGMuller. I hope to have someone else to play with. Besides my one friend.

This variant has one thing common with another variant - it is quite overwhelming.

I was hoping it would get more love

If you get over the intimidating amount of pieces and focus on how they are all (except 2 sets) a slight variation of the original pieces. They are easy to learn. Which really does make remembering the moves much easier than you would first anticipate. I have yet to see anyone who could not easily remember all, but the mage and wizard moves in a single game. Tho it does seem to intimidate everyone I show at first. Play a single partial game with yourself and you will see. All pieces are protected in the starting position like normal chess.

I can also upload a winboard version of it somewhere. That only allows legal moves for every piece. Which makes both learning and playing a lot easier.

this looks familiar and interesting

I might be able to try it some time
the move diagrams look great!

You mixed a lot of piece powers and names around. e. g. That's not how the Wizard, a common known faerie piece invented by Dan MacDonald, moves. And, the "Phoenix's" powers is exactly said-Wizard's power.

It's difficult enough for people to learn the randomly non-linear moves of 35+ pieces. I think mixing up known faerie pieces will only add to the depth of said-confusion.

Have you test-ran/played any games with anyone? It would be nice to see a posted game completed with a list of all moves. (I know that Fairy-Max has a feature that records all moves of a game; unless you're using a different engine now-a-days.)

p. s. Not bad of a design set. Looks nice. 

By the way, LXIVC, it's nice to see you again. You too I haven't seen in a while. Hope all is well. =)

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Don't give it too much thought. @huiliwang

His variants are mostly nonsensed collaborations created on a fickle, primarily for aesthetic appeal and not much more after. Their only value is that they 'look cool' when they're a large board and has lotsa, lotsa, losta pieces.

He doesn't give much thought on why the pieces move the way they do and how their starting position is relevant. 

ah you gotta be jealous of those people with brain cells who can figure out these games.

Lol more like, one has to be jealous if the brain cells didnt fry up from trying to figure out the substance of the game. (Since, again, these pieces were mainly created with not too substantial of a quantity of brain cells involved.)

i'd like to see two people play this variant with a 60/0 time control blindfolded

Lol can most people play chess blindfolded, any time control?

so this looks like you ve spent a lot of time on this variant, hmm.... where can i play this? cant you create a page or an app for playing games like this?

He really didn't. These are old recycled pieces that he simply renamed and threw onto yet another unconventionally (and nonsensically?) shaped big board. He's had multiple variants just like this: big board with some odd dimension to it, and a huge barrage of some 50+ pieces that don't always make complete sense. I would know. I go way back with him on this forum for at least half a decade.

He creates variants, then forgets about them to create some new ones more. Then, he'll soon abandon those ones to create yet some more. And, then, on all of his variants, they are the same nonsensically created pieces renamed with very strange names that no one really knows what they historically were.

I'll bet he doesn't even remember how to play 95% of the fickle-minded variants that he has ever posted here.

I have yet to see a single game posted by two chess.com players who have went further than "This looks interesting" and actually tried to play one of his past variants. Other than me and LXIVC, I haven't seen anyone else.

(As a heads up, chances are, the next reply you'll receive from him, if he decides to respond again, will be some kind of childish empty insult disguised as criticism thrown back at me. He'll probably rant on the same tired rhetoric about how I'm "preposterous" and emotional, while he doesn't "feel any emotions"; that I haven't reveal my real gender, so he doesn't know if I'm a woman or a man, etc. etc. etc. etc.)

You have no idea what you are talking about BattleChessGN18. Look at you project your own thoughts and desires on to me. Grow up.

I have refined this over years. Put a ton of work in playing countless games with others to see any flaws. Which is literally the opposite of all you said. Why you so mad? You sound like an angry child.

I also have not changed much at all in three years because we refined it so well the two years prior. Again the opposite of what you said.

I also have not played all year because i have been busy. Yet I know every piece move off the top of my head effortlessly. Having a 169IQ I am sure helps, but it is mostly because I made moves that would use beta state links in ones mind to remind them. I put a lot of work in piece movement and ones abillity to learn them and retain it. Again the opposite of what you said...

You are the one projecting his own shortcomings and spewing insults. All because you wanted me to add your pieces to it and I told you they do not fit. They do not use common moves as all mine do, and they did not have a full protected start. Which is important to make all pieces protected from the start. You are literally having a tantrum because I put more thought a effort into this than you wanted me to. Then projecting a whole bunch of made up reason you concived in your head out of spite. Grow up. This is pathetic. Why is it you are so mad, and hate that I made this variant sooooo much?