Zombie Chess
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In this single player variant players must fight off a horde of zombie pieces. I’ll put the instructions below.
Setup: Start the game by getting a full set of white pieces, with black reserve pieces that you can place on ranks 1&2 in their respective spots. The game is played in waves, with every wave having a set number of extra color pieces.
Enemies: Your biggest advantage is that the enemies are completely stupid. They are not even AI level, they each follow the exact same pattern every turn. But be careful, they all have to move on the same turn. If they can’t move they kill themself, if they can move they move, if they can capture they have to capture. Pawns move 1 space forward and capture diagonal. Knights move in an L shape forward alternating between left and right.
Bishops move 2 squares diagonally forward also shifting between left and right. If they can capture something within 1 square they must.
Rooks are boss enemies, boss enemies are a little smarter meaning they not only move forward, but directly toward your king, they move 2 squares straight, choosing the fastest way to the king, they also capture compulsively. Queens are also boss enemies moving 3 squares in any direction, choosing the fastest path to the king. The king is a boss enemy that moves 1 square toward the king in any direction, after moving they summon 3 pawns or 1 rook adjacent to them.
A quick note is that enemy pieces MUST CAPTURE if they have the opportunity. And if they have multiple options they target the one that is closer, if both are equally close the piece captures the strongest, if both are equally strong then they capture the one closest to the king, if this still doesn’t work you choose what they capture.
Waves: there are 6 game modes: Beginner (5 waves), Easy (10 waves), Medium (15 waves), Moderate (20 waves), Hard (25 waves), and Chaos (35 waves). In moderate, hard, and chaos mode, new bosses are introduced from the XXL
Sadly it’s just a custom variant I made but you can play it on a normal board
Cool! Would you be willing to film an example game and put it on youtube? Just film the board and narrate some rules while you play.
Questions:
Does black get a full setup every wave?
In what order does black move. They move all at once, but what is order in that one turn?
#12 Every wave the setup uses the point system (Pawn=1 knight=3 etc…) each wave has a number of points worth its number for example wave 7 could have 1 knight 1 bishop 1 pawn or something like that.
#13 Move order goes pawns first, knights second, bishops third, rooks fourth, queens, kings, emperor (Bishop and knight combined), warlord (Rook and knight), monarch (Queen and knight), and then Overlord (King and knight, summons warlords).
I made the first 15 sample waves.
1: 1 Pawn
2: 2 Pawns
3:1 Bishop
4: 4 Pawns
5: 1 Rook
1: 1 Pawn
2: 2 Pawns
3:1 Bishop
4: 4 Pawns
5: 1 Rook
6: 2 Knights