If I could create a new piece it would have the combined capabilities of a queen and a knight. It could move as a queen or a knight, but not on the same move. I am not sure what the piece would look like, but it would probably have a look that reflects the looks of both. Possibly a queen on a horse.
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A piece that moved like the King but was not subject to checkmate would be interesting, particularly in the endgame.
I would want a magic piece that simply flew over all the other pieces and popped the king in the head, thus saving the player the minor inconvenience of having to do anything.
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Ricardo_Morro wrote:
A piece that moved like the King but was not subject to checkmate would be interesting, particularly in the endgame.
Such was the Queen in Oriental version of chess (Bishops could also move by one square only)
jungleroy, that would be freakin' awesome! but what if it was next to like 2 or more pieces?
hey jedimaster, why not a horse on a queen?
I like the way the king moved in the oldest form of chess. It moves like a normal king, but has the additional option to do one knight like movement during a game, provided it was not in check, or been checked previously before it made that move.
Bringing the elephant back would be helpfull to some games, also.
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Aristokatt wrote:
DJHeilke wrote:
As a nod to the state of modern warfare, I'd create the IED (or mine, if you prefer). The rules are simple, and require no extra tokens: Each player chooses two squares on rows 3-6 at the start of the game as "mined"(marked on slips of paper); any piece that moves through a mined square would be blown up, in the middle of the moving players turn, but the detonation of the mine would count as the opposing player's turn and the moving player would be allowed to move again (but would have one less piece to move with :( ). Any piece landing on a mined square would be at the mercy of the mine-owning player's choice: blow it up on any of his turns as his move, or wait until the piece tried to move and blew itself up automatically. To detonate a mine, just shout "BOOM!" in a loud voice (try it, it's fun) and reveal the slip of paper with the mined square to your opponent (you can snicker with glee if the opponent tried to move his queen or a rook). Knights can jump over pieces, and so can only be caught by landing on a mine, pawns can only move through if they moved two squares on their first turn, otherwise they would have to land on top. As with all pieces, you can't occupy a square with more than one piece, so you can't move one of your pieces on to one of your mines (that gives your opponent clues as to where your mines might be). The king alone is immune: if the king comes within one square of a mine, then the opponent must call check, and reveal the mined square as the source of the check (though he may move normally first). A penny or some other small implement can be used to mark a revealed mined square for the rest of the game, at that point. If the king is in check and the only squares to which he can move contain mines, then the king is counted as checkmated. What do y'all think?? Anybody want to play test it???? How about if I place the mine under the opponent's king..... BOOM, I win hehe
Well, aristokatt, if you had read my whole post: mines can only be deployed on rows 3-6, i.e. no man's land. So you can't place it under a king or queen, as those pieces start on rows 1 and 8 for white and black, respectively.
How about an Archerer? It moves like a Rook, 1 or 2 spaces in the direction of choice, whichever one the player chooses. Then, It could only shoot 1 or 2 spaces in the style of a rook. The "arrows" may pass over any piece.
A statue, which can't move(or capture) except by moving to the square he is on. Despite being so weak, he is actually quite a strong piece in the endgame.
I would propose a "straw boss". A pawn starting on a2 and a7 would have the capacity to capture and move forward or backward on the diagonal or straight (just no sideways move). If captured all the pawns on that side are frozen for the subsequent move. Then on the next turn the leftmost or leftmost and closest their origination is promoted to straw boss but it or another peice still moves. If it is promoted to another piece you get the capture effect.
paul211 wrote:
RELee1865 wrote:
chess is good with the pieces it has. No new pieces are needed.
The question is :if !
And I surmise that you are not willing to try something else.
that's fine enjoy it and I also do but what if??
Orthodox chess is complicated for those starting out. It becomes predictable for the well trained and for PCs. Chess960 breaks the opening tedium. Those games with additional pieces require more imagination. There are no studies or detailed endgames analysed with odd pieces. They are more for the artist than the worker.
How about one called the George W.
It leaves the board and goes to its ranch in Texas 3 out of ever 7 games.
I would model it after the people of today, that is, a new knight. it would have an actual knight on top of a horse, one hand holding the reins, the other with a cell phone to it's ear. The piece would move everywhere obviously bumping into everything in it's way without paying attention to where it's going. 
Jungleroy59 wrote:
Make the board 10X10 and put a Chamealeon on each corner. It can move like any piece it is next to.
That is brilliant!
TheGrobe wrote:
In all serious though, the game is so incredibly well balanced in it's current form I'd not touch it. That being said, I think a cool idea would be versions of the existing peices (kings and pawns excluded) that can wrap around the board (from the first rank to the eighth and from the a-file to the h-file. In that case this would be checkmate:
Good! I like it.
maybe an ultimate piece with queen and knight.