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The variant where every square is another board. and every piece is a batallion of pawns.
The rules of this variant of nmy inventive are equal to fide chess except for captures.
A new game starts with every capture (except if both pieces value less than a pawn) unning in parallel with the main game, this nested game consists of an 8x8 board (but could be smallerr) where two Fide hordes of pawns batte each other in a contest for which piece will survive, both hordes are "commanded" by their respective black and white pieces implied on the capture,.The horde of the piece that started the capture moves first and the piece dies if it's pawns oon the board netred inside it's square are taken by the pawns of the other piece and dead pawns are not resuplied once the capture game ended. The objective is to take all of the opponent's pawns in order for that capture be effective, contrary case one pieces could loose pawns or even the attacant result taken.
The number of pawns commanded by each piece are equal to the justified value of that piece in centipawnsx100, then a knight would have three pawns and a queen arround 15, chances of a knight taking a queen are few on this variant. A pawn values 100, then it's nested board consists of itself, this is why no nested game opens when a pawn is taking another pawn though a new board would open if a pawn is taking or being taked by another piece.
A variant of this varianty could be one where each commanded pawn corresponds to an hability of that piece and lossing it will imply the lost of that hability, e.g. for a knight, one pawn commands the (2,0) parial leg, other pawn it's (0,1) partial leg and the last one the hability to jump other pieces, for a queen this could be more complicated, two pawns for every direction the queen moves if we round it's value to 16 instead of 15.
Now I see that this variant is very mayor piece oriented since a pawn could never take but injury another piece that is not a pawn.
If al this seems too complex to understand or to practice just figure this: the filosofy is that every piece is indeed made by the sum of many pawns, each square is indeed half a board, and that capture us a process instead of an action of the game, Batallions chess expands FIDE by taking acount of this microgames inside the game with different results.
What do you think, would you play this?