New Variant Idea: Weak Chess

So the premise for this game is that all the pieces are much weaker.

It's set up like a normal board.

but all the pieces are weaker.

Weak pawn:

Weak queen:

just weak bishop+weak rook.

Weak king:

it's the same as a regular king, except for two things:

Cannot castle. Can only capture once every five moves. (this doesn't mean only on move 5, 10, 15, 20, etc, just means that there must be five moves in between every capture.

So there's mate if queen is next to king without protecting, if king did a capture less than 5 moves ago, there's no piece that can eat queen and if king can't escape. Right ?

That variant seems really cool, we could have very week chess lol

yup.

good except i dont like that the bishops cant be on b2/g6 and b6/g2 like whats the point of that

if its bc of fianchettoing, not really a problem, since fianchettos are nerfed serverely by the 3 square limit

the rule just seems odd

I like the short bishop and rook capacities; just three spaces is appropriately weakened. I am also confused by the restriction on bishops on b2/g6/etc. Laughing a bit about the bizarre circumnavigation that the knight is allowed to take to get to a space. That seems bonkers.

yeah its because of fianchettoing 

i still think that 

is pretty powerful

yeah the knight is pretty absurd. the space restrictions on bishops is to prevent fianchettoing, which makes the bishop powerful.

Sounds like chaturanga except the pieces are more op

kind of yeah. although some pieces have weaknesses that chatrang doesnt have.

I don't really understand your question.

Why don’t you just implement the “tripping” system for the knight instead? (Like in XiangQi)

idk man u trippin

but on a serious note idk what that mechanic is.

Looks pretty interesting! I don't know how fun it would be to play though.

would anyone wanna play a game of weak chess

This seems like the game would become much more positional and take longer to play a game. 

The concept of this is similar to chaturanga, actually. In chaturanga, pawns only move one square, bishops are replaced with elephants, and the queen is replaced with a ferz.

The closest thing to what you've suggested that can actually currently be made here on chess.com would be this:

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The rooks are dabbabas, which can hop two spaces horizontally or vertically. The bishops are alfils, which hop two spaces diagonally. The queen is an alibaba, which combines the dabbaba and alfil, and the knight is a qiangi knight, which can't hop over a piece which is directly next to it horizontally or vertically. There's no castling, and pawns only move one space.

not really that similar.