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I've been thinking of some way to use fairy pieces suggested here (and others I've been finding elsewhere on the internet), in some variant of chess.

In the end I thought it would be a better idea to create variants based on other variants of the known chess, classic variants.

 

Omega chess (advanced) beta:

 

Omega chess is a very knew variant of chess that includes pieces like the champion and wizard (and its advanced version, the joker).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Chess

Resultado de imagen de omega chess

Basically the idea is to add an extra piece to the omega chess advanced (the one with the joker piece).

This piece would be the avenger or mercenary.

 

The avenger is a piece invented by ZlyphrrPlayz (https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/letrsquos-invent-some-very-weird-pieces?page=5) that would move like a king but, in case of be captured, the piece that captured this also will be captured.

 

This piece would not be in the game at the start of the game, but like the joker, it can be added to the first row of board, counting it like a movement.

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Capablanca chess advanced:

 

Capablanca chess was invented by the old world chess champion José Raul Capablanca.

As a try to avoid or reduce stalemate and draws chances, this chess variant contains the chancellor or marshall (fusion of knight and rook) and archbishop (fusion of knight and bishop).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca_chess

Resultado de imagen de capablanca chess

 

My suggested addition is simply to add the piece "magnificent pawn" or "great pawn", that is basically an amazon (fusion of queen and knight) with a different name.

This piece only can be obtained by promotion of pawn, and only one time in all the game (the next pawn promotion to such, can't be the great pawn, but another piece).

 

This piece would to reduce more yet the chances of obtain draws or stalemate, as well as it can give a big advantage to a player at critical situations.

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3 players raumschach:

Taking inspiration from the 777 chess created by s23bog (https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/777-chess?page=1), I achieved to create a 3 players raumschach.

The raumschach was the first knew three-dimensional chess variant. A new piece was added to this, the unicorn, that is a rider piece that moves trigonally (in cubic diagonals instead squared diagonals, unlike bishop). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess#raumschach<br />
The "3 players raumschach" is basically the same, but for three players

About the configuration of pieces of the raumschach for three players, I created an image:

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Like comparision, this is the original raumschach game:

Resultado de imagen de raumschach

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Stratomic beta:

Finally the stratomic.

This game is inspired about the cold war and included the new piece "nuclea", which is a piece able to move like a king and, after the capture of a non-pawn piece by the oponent, it can be "launched" by any square of the board, "exploding" and capturing to all the adjacent pieces (also self pieces) inside one square radius, excepting king and queen of both players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratomic

Resultado de imagen de stratomic
In my "beta variant", one of the two nucleas are changed by a nukeoid, piece that moves like a king but, unlike nuclea, it can't be launched, and will capture all the pieces inside a 2 squares radius (5x5 zone) when "exploded".

Also, and unlike a nuclea again, this piece is able to capture king and queen when explodes.

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Thanks for read.

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