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First of all let me just say that I realize there is a game called liar's chess where you can take back your moves, but I think a more fitting name for that variant would be cheaters chess, and then my variant could use the name liar's chess, but until some Internation Chess Committee changes the names, I will be looking for something more fitting.
The rules of the variant I imagined would look something like this:
Just to elaborate a bit further, the main idea is that you play without knowing which piece is which of your opponents, and you get to lie about what your pieces are. For example I move my pawn as if it was a knight, and if my opponent thinks it is not actually a knight, he shouts liar, I need to show him what piece it actually is and because indeed it wasn't a knight, I need to move back, and now he knows thats a pawn (if he can remember later).
I think it would be kind of fun, includes lot of mindgames, some memory, perhaps a bit of deception. In real life you could use pieces that are all shaped the same, but have faces only on one side, so only you would see yours, and when the opponent calls liar you just show the face of your piece, then turn it back if the opponent wasn't correct. Online it would obviously be easy to program since the computer would know which piece is which. After the game you could rewatch all the moves with the pieces revealed for added fun.
The whole idea is based on stratego and the card game we called liars in middle school, and I would like to know what do you guys think about it?