What strange chess rules can you think up?

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Abdication - When a piece lands on the e1 square as white or the e8 square as black, that piece and the king swap places.

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if you bring your pawn in the middle squares you lose your queen, after you lost it dosen't matter anyomore

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Imposter: one chess piece on both teams can be controlled by the opposing team

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tower-

Rooks are not allowed to deliver checkmate

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Koski_1 wrote:

Imposter: one chess piece on both teams can be controlled by the opposing team

wow that's my fav one

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The Roaring Knight Rule: if there are 3 chess pieces left on the enemies or your side, specifically, 1 pawn, one queen, and one king, and your opponent has 4 queens, and 1 knight, they will immediately be killed due to the knight betraying them,, and now he has a black sword, and when he grabs it, he turns into the roaring knight from deltarune, putting you into a deltarune fight, and if you win the fight, you just win, but if you lose, you cannot use the queen's half of your pieces since they will be dead next game you play against them

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Vampire rule: if the bishop looks at the knight, they can merge and become a pawn that can't promote but when you promote it it will come to the 2 rank as white and 7 rank as black

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Water limit: you can't drink more than 1½ liters of water and if you drink more than that, then your bathroom privileges are revoked

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Just_an_average_player136 wrote:
EvilSpudBoy wrote:

Anyone ever think of new chess rules for fun? Crazy, strange, whimsical or silly.

Here's one I came up with: The queen in addition to it's current capabilities could make a move like a Knight. However, upon completing this move the queen would be demoted to a pawn. Of course as a pawn it has the chance to be promoted again to a Queen if it reaches the back rank. Or if it makes a knight move that lands on the back rank it simultaneously demotes and promotes so it could become a queen again or any other piece.

Ok, now let's hear yours. The more far out the better.

Bishops can go out of the board

You mean out of town?

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Koski_1 wrote:

Imposter: one chess piece on both teams can be controlled by the opposing team

note: a king cant be an imposter

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yea makes sense

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there needs to be an imposter chess variant, with the added rule that the imposter piece needs to be the same for both teams, so its fair

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everyone moves twice, not once

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ex. 1. e4 e5 d6 dxe5 2. ...

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Flip: you can use a uno reverse card to make it so that you control your enemy's pieces and vice versa (you can only use this when your king is in check)