A new chess piece idea; The Pretender

Hi this my first post here, so I want to post an idea I was experimenting with. I found a random lost King from another set and I wanted to make a use out of it so I came up with the idea of a Pretend King. It would move exactly like a normal King (even castles) but isn't actually a Royal piece so an opponent would have to deduce which is which.

I'd like to hear you thoughts about a pretend King as a piece in a chess variant

So you want to change basically all the fundamentals of a 600 year old game? 

More like a ''x'' year old game

It sounds like a cool idea but you'd never get anyone to play it because chess is a very old game and its rules have not changed in hundreds of years. 

       I like GM Yassar Seirawan's idea about adding 2 new pieces to the board. The Arch-bishop, and he Marshall, and they move with combined abilities of the knight, rook, and bishop.(they look like an Eagle, and an Elephant).

ForeverHoldYourPiece wrote:

So you want to change basically all the fundamentals of a 600 year old game? 

No only as a chess variant (you still get to play your beloved standard western chess :) ) probably with one with more powerful pieces were a decoy King would be extremely helpful. Anyways I think the Pretenders identity should be revealed a set amount of checks (3 perhaps?) or moves.

Western? Lol, chess is from the east. But yeah, I've played a couple chess variants. They're quite fun.

Let me direct you to this thread:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/guide-to-chess-noobs-n00bs?page=1

In the Extinction Chess variant, you can have more than one king on the board. Promotion to king is allowed. I've never seen it happen in a tournament game, however.

You should check the noob survival guide. You've been infected and you need to be cured.

The self-acclaimed "non noobs" fear new ideas.

I'm terrified of ideas. Ideas are big and scary.

 New ideas are always worth considering. The problem is encouraging someone to write programs to accomodate such chess variants. A lot of people play the variant form of Chinese Chess called "Reveal Chess" in Hong Kong, yet the software for this variant is still non-existent.

New Idea: Why don't you make a new chess piece and aske FIDE to change the rules of chess. You'll be sucessful, right?

I think this could catch on. I think that if your opponent checkmates the wrong king, every one of your pawns remaining on the board turns in to a queen.

I predict the chess rulebook is about to be rewritten.