The Soldier. It moves like a king, but is promoted like a pawn when it reaches the back rank, giving it the ability to move one or two squares in any direction, and can jump.
Imaginary chess: if you could invent a totally new piece to chess, what it could it be?
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Aug 31, 2023
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#83
The Cannon. On your turn, instead of moving a piece, you can place the cannon on any square. You can't have more than two cannons. Cannons move one square horizontally or vertically. Alternatively, you can fire the cannon. It can fire as far as it needs to horizontally vertically or diagonally. Whichever piece the cannon hits is removed. The cannon can only hit one piece, but it can choose to fire over a piece in its way to hit a piece behind it. When firing, the cannon doesn't move. The cannon can't be captured, but it can be hit by your opponent's cannon.
Aug 31, 2023
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#85
Kentaro77890 wrote:
KieferSmith wrote:
The Cannon. On your turn, instead of moving a piece, you can place the cannon on any square. You can't have more than two cannons. Cannons move one square horizontally or vertically. Alternatively, you can fire the cannon. It can fire as far as it needs to horizontally vertically or diagonally. Whichever piece the cannon hits is removed. The cannon can only hit one piece, but it can choose to fire over a piece in its way to hit a piece behind it. When firing, the cannon doesn't move. The cannon can't be captured, but it can be hit by your opponent's cannon.
So from my understanding, the Cannon is like a bishop from the diagonal moving am I correct or is it at least inspired by the bishop?
No, it moves like the wazir but can fire cannonballs across the board. can never move diagonally. The tiger was inspired by the bishop though.
Aug 31, 2023
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#86
Here the white rook is the cannon. The squares it can move to are blue. The squares it can fire to are red.
Aug 31, 2023
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#87
Cat, mouse, and cheese. One player controls the cat, the other the mouse. Mouse moves one square in any direction. Cat moves one or two squares in any direction. If the mouse eats the cheese, the player controlling the mouse wins. If the cat eats the mouse, the player controlling the cat wins. The cheese stays stationary the entire game.
Aug 31, 2023
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#88
Pawn = mouse
Knight = cat
Rook = cheese
The squares the mouse can go to are blue
The squares the cat can go to are red
Aug 31, 2023
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#90
Piece that can teleport to any empty square on the board once per game.
Presenting: the Book
Moves like a Rook and Bishop
which pc is good for chess analyse amd 7950x or i9 13900k?
mrenpassant69 wrote:
Presenting: the Book
Moves like a Rook and Bishop
is this a joke
Sep 25, 2023
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#95
The Jester, moves two squares in any direction, or like a knight, the result is that the legal moves form a 5x5 square centered around the Jester. The Jester can jump over pieces.
KieferSmith wrote:
Pawn = mouse
Knight = cat
Rook = cheese
The squares the mouse can go to are blue
The squares the cat can go to are red
this is actually a good concept, though i think the board should be a little bigger (like 10x10) and put the mouse closer to the cheese than the cat
otherwise i approve 
The Destroyer. Can take any piece on the board by teleporting to it but you don’t have it on the board from the start. If you promote a pawn it can become a Destroyer. (Cannot be taken but cannot take the king and gets captured after it takes 3 pieces, no matter what.
JChessGrandmaster wrote:
The Destroyer. Can take any piece on the board by teleporting to it but you don’t have it on the board from the start. If you promote a pawn it can become a Destroyer. (Cannot be taken but cannot take the king and gets captured after it takes 3 pieces, no matter what.
thats like the most op thing ever like what
#111 it is also worth 5000 points
I was working on a chess engine that would let you create fairy pieces (the "official" term for new chess pieces) and script their behaviours.
I tried to make the script engine as open-ended as possible, so you could make very weird pieces.
For example a fun one was the lightning bishops, which moved like regular bishops, and you'd have a light and a dark-squared one. They couldn't capture by moving into pieces though. Instead, any time they were on the same rank or file you could use your move to activate the lightning, and any enemy pieces in-between the bishops would be removed from the board.