Custom Chess Variant: Spawn Chess – Play by Forum

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PHONEPASSWORDSEVEN598

Mar 8, 2025

Spawn Chess;

if you wish to play respond with a move starting as white, black king is a d7, white king is at e2

rules below;

Board;
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[a][b][c][d][e][f][g][h]

Spawn Chess, each time you move the king you place down a piece where he was last, you can have a max of 39pts (points; pawn-1,knight-3,bishop-3,rook-5,queen-9) of material on the board if moving the king forces you to go over you cant move the king. Capturing the king isn't the win condition, it is capturing all of the other persons pieces off the board, however killing the king is kinda required.

Pieces placement rules;

You have a finite amount of each piece over the whole game (39/pieces value)/2 (you get 19 pawns, 6 knight, 6 bishops, 3 rooks, 2 queens over the whole game, promoting pawns doesn't take from amount left)

use standard chess notation and add & after kings move and add what piece where Kd2&Qe2, king moved from e2 to d2 placing a queen at e2

Promotion rules;

Pawns cant be placed on promotion rank, when pawns promote the pawn is gone and the king moves placing a free piece pawn/QRNB (it still has to be 39pts or under), to symbolize this add * after pawn move (when promotion) like so (white move) a8*Kf2&Qg1, or another example axb8*Kc2&Nc3+

Castle rules;

You can castle (as many times as you like and out of check) as long as a rook is in file a/h and king is in rank 1/2 (black 7/8) (either rank work for either castle direction) and file d/e (with no obstructions of course) place a piece one to the left if castled left side else place it to the right side of king, if rank is 2/7 add R2/R7

examples; 0-0-0&Qb1 / R20-0-0&Rb2 / 0-0&Bh1 / R20-0&Nh2 (note this is for white)

example game of a tie;

1.Kd2&Qe2

white king moved placing a queen
2.Ke7&Rd7+

black king moved placing a rook with check, and checks themself
3.Qxe7

white takes black king
4.Rxd2

black takes white king

a queen cant take a rook on a empty board nor rook a queen, there is insufficient material can't continue

Draws;

Tie/Draw when stalemate (only by stuck pawns) or king cant move due to all pieces having been placed already and captured (except pawns they can be stuck, if king is on promotion rank pawns cant be placed) also by insufficient material