Chess Variant: Ice Chess

Very intresting, would love to give tjat a go! We could do a match like that if you want!

What if we tried that?

P.S. I made a similar chess variant

How about this.

Pieces are made of ice out of the freezer.

You have to checkmate before the pieces melt!

um... the pieces would melt in ur hands so basically bullet

Hmm.

This could actually work. Very simple.

For the winter.

You can easily have plastic molds for the pieces.Use different color sodas for the pieces. Put the frozen chess set in a public park. If there aren't boards already, you can make ice boards.

When winter is over the pieces melt. But they can easily come back next winter!

Just like Frosty The Snowman!

Speak of the Devil.

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Suggestion;

Knights would also slide after moving, in the relative direction they moved.

If that means it stops halfway between two squares, oh well, then we have an out of bounds glitch in chess. Surely that's a world record.

Suggestion, maybe make an extra piece called the yeti that can be achieved by pawn promotion and move like the king, and they can set bumpers on edge squares occupied by ally pieces as the players turn to make pieces bump off the board a couple of times before being removed.

I'm thinking about 10 durability, with knights and bishops doing 2 damage, rooks doing 3, kings doing 5, and queens one shot. The bumpers will lose 1 durability every 3 turns, and can be removed at any time if a yeti is still intact.

I'd love to hear where this could take us in the variant!

oh and btw yeti doesn't slip.

I just was thinking of a variant like this, but included the kings (act like queens), pawns (act like rooks but still capture diagonally) and knights (move as many valid moves as possible along L-shaped slope before next move would be off the board) in the slipping mechanic.