New chess variant: what do you think?
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Pepsicus_Ze_Second
Feb 14, 2025
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So the variant is called poison squares chess. The gimmick is that every move, some squares a poison squares, so the piece occupying the square gets captured. If there is a king on the square, it switches to a different square. It starts off being only one square, then it gradually increases as the game goes on.
Feb 22, 2025
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#4
To play on an actual chessboard, you can roll a digital die and use a spinner for the numbers
Feb 22, 2025
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#5
How would that work? What would the number of poison squares be?
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There’s so many options
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There’s so many options
Mar 8, 2025
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#8
How would it increase?
How fast would it increase?
1 per turn?
1 per 2 turns
Square root of turns?
How fast would it increase?
1 per turn?
1 per 2 turns
Square root of turns?
I would assume 1 per turn (as in after both white and black move, boom, poison, repeating).
Also, I think they should only spawn on empty squares.
That way, you can't run the risk of, say, getting poison on d8 after 3 moves and oops now you're down a queen for no reason.
Also, maybe the poison could "decay", so the poison only applies for, say, five moves, so the endgame isn't destroyed.