i request to include my "secret kings variant"

I made up a variant for me and my friends to try out and they both seemed to enjoy it, i now call it "Secret Kings" The twist of the game is for each person to choose any piece on the board and declare it to be the secret king without telling your opponent, then it is the opponents turn to pick a piece.

RULES OF THE GAME:

• each player may pick a piece they legally own on the board without the knowledge of the opponent before the game starts, this includes pawns, bishops, knights, the queen, and even the original king.
• white goes first and all pieces move the same as in original chess.
• all checking rules apply to the chosen king piece but will not to the actual king piece if the particular piece was not chosen, which means you may let it be taken.
• you may not tell the opponent if they are checking your king.
• the chosen king piece can be checkmated by normal means.
• you may not let your chosen king piece be taken.
• if the chosen piece is a pawn that succeeded in promoting, the piece still retains the same rules as the new piece.

DESCRIPTION:

in this variant, you can pick a secret king and hide it from players! the strategy for which piece is better to choose and endgame results would be fun to investigate! and you could switch it up a little by doing any of the following, choosing a pawn to give low suspicion of the piece for low power, doing the queen for ultimate power but high suspicion, and doing a knight to leap out of checkmates! you could confuse them with picking the original king! this would spark even more love for the chess variant section and would be fun to find the hidden king in the crowd!

so I'm asking the community to give support for this new variant and help it make it in the official variant section!

is it just a normal chessboard?

yes, do you wish to play? and change the FEN notation in the forems?

Sounds fun! Is it even possible to play this on Chess.com? I'd love to!

Unfortunately no, im petitioning my game variant to be on chess.com, thumbs it up, and follow the discussion to support it, we can also play the game here if you wish, but because we dont have any fancy rules implemented in the forums, and could capture the king, we would have to play in editor mode. we would also have to trust each other to move when checked and to not change out kings last second.

Oh dear... how disappointing. +1 from me anyhow!

thanks man! but i ment thumbs up as the little icon i put under the first statement of the forem

good idea, imo

yes i really want it to get to the top

thats the hope!

bump

if you want to play it here by posting moves

you just have to pm the chosen king to someone else, for fairness

thats what you do in the physical chess version, but it might be a bit harder online

bump

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It seems someone else later presented the same idea as Ahab Chess.

well at least i was first, however, its good to know people would like the variant!

Dude, this is crazy! XD It's super similar.