Some questions:
1. Can factories produce things that we never on the board to begin with, such as a second queen or a third factory?
2. What happens if a pawn is summoned on the 8th rank? Does it promote instantly? What happens if it promotes to a factory? Can that factory keep making 8th rank pawns and filling the opponents' back rank with queens?
3. How would play likely evolve given the continuous influx of material?
I was wondering today how one could model in chess that warring factions can create new equipment, so I came up with the following variant idea and was wondering if people could comment on it or had suggestions or knew of similar variants?
To play this variant each player gets two six-sided dice. All die start with the 1 face up. The idea is to replace the bishops with factories. This variant is played on a standard 8x8 board and all pieces except the two factories move as normal. Check and checkmate are as normal. Each die corresponds to a factory. A factory as a move can either move one square like a king and return its die to 1, or you can use the sum of the die for factories you have to add a taken piece back to the board. Pieces cost 1-pawn, 3 knight, 5 rook, 6 factory, 9 queen. You must place the returned piece on a square other than your own next to a factory (you can take an opponent's piece doing this). You then decrement the die you have by the amount of the piece you added back. If you don't use a factory in a turn then its die gets incremented by 1 up to a maximum of 6. That's all that's new about this variant. Any thoughts?