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some guy just made a New variant of chess
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Chess2 is basically a variant of Bongcloud chess, except the king only needs to get past the fourth rank instead of all the way to the other side.
It's good to see Bongcloud chess get the respect it deserves and be used as the starting point for a new chess variant, although I don't think those dueds credit Lenny Bongcloud for the inspiration of the midline rule.
"Midline invasion reduces the draws dramatically, but it also makes the game more climactic," says [games developer Zachary] Burns. "Remember, high-level players will often recognise a specific ending coming together in current chess, and then finish the game at that time. That's not very fun if the game cools down at this strange place, and for amateurs, it adds to that memorisation tax. Midline invasion makes it exciting and interesting up through the very end of the game. A friend of mine who plays chess a lot, he said of Chess 2, 'in this game, the king really deserves their title.' I love that. It's more of an assault, and the king really does earn their place rather than being tucked back until the end of the game, often never to be used."
Next come armies. Six of them, allowing for 21 possible match-ups - and that's before you take into account the variations caused by playing as black or white. Sirlin's work here is dazzling. Alongside the Classic army that remains unchanged, you can choose from the likes of Nemesis, which turns the queen into a piece that cannot capture or be captured except by the enemy king, while pawns get a new nemesis move that allows them to head towards that king wherever they may be, or Empowered, which allows knights, bishops and rooks to gain the powers of other knights, bishops, and rooks whenever they're adjacent to them, but sees the queen downgraded to moving like a king. Elsewhere amongst the line-ups, you can expect to find a teleporting queen, a second king and a whirlwind move, and even a knight that can take its own pieces. Chess 2 is precision-honed but gleefully inventive.
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http://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2013/11/how-make-chess-less-boring-learn-street-fighter